There's a long history of educational games, but how are board games used in the classroom today? We talk to eight educators ...

Game-based learning has become synonymous with educational video games in some circles, but low-tech games have been used with great success in classrooms for a while. In fact, games that don’t ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite classroom games? In Part One, Shannon Jones, Jennifer Bay-Williams, Molly Ness, and Sheniqua Johnson shared their favorites. Today, Jenny Vo, ...

Multiplayer world-building games like Minecraft and Roblox allow adolescents to engage in complex creative thinking, as well as refine their skills of communication and collaboration. As gaming ...

In an effort to curtail how much time young people spend playing video games, China has banned students from playing them during the school week and limits them to just one hour per day on Fridays, ...

I know many parents question video games, but I wonder if they have ever stopped to consider their educational value? With the increasing variety of titles being custom made for the classroom such as ...

Many of us here at ProfHacker enjoy playing to learn. As an avid gamer, one of my favorite parts about summer is the chance to pick up something new and spend some time I’ve written in the past on my ...

Games are being used much more widely in schools than they were when I first started writing about them 2 or 3 years ago. As of fall 2013, 74% of K-8 teachers were using digital games. 55% of these ...

Shawn Young has a class full of warriors, mages, and healers. Warriors get to eat in class, mages can teleport out of a lecture, and healers can ask if an exam answer is correct. But this isn’t some ...

November 13, 2025 - Many mentoring and tutoring programs in K-12 schools rely partially on federal grants through AmeriCorps — funding that President Donald Trump has proposed entirely eliminating.