Still, even if "edutainment" was a Trojan horse of math and history lessons dressed up in blocky '90s graphics, there's no denying we spent hours on that Oregon trail or trying to find Carmen Sandiego ...

In 1964 30 sixth grade students from Westchester County did something nobody else had ever done before: they learned from a computer game. Today the computer’s usefulness as an educational tool has ...

Games have gone a long way since they first appeared. At first, many people thought games were time-wasteful and that they couldn’t help people in any way. However, games are everywhere now, and ...

"The Oregon Trail," an educational computer game for grade schoolers, which later spawned memes, is now being turned into a movie. Based on the actual Oregon Trail, a perilous path between Missouri ...

Educators are responding to increasingly shorter student attention spans—linked by experts to screen time and pandemic-era learning—by adopting strategies like brain breaks, microlessons, hands-on ...

The educational games sector is expanding rapidly, fueled by rising demand for engaging, tech-driven learning tools and supported by research linking gameplay to improved cognitive skills. Studies ...

Learn how to use instructional technology and design to build curricula for students in Kentucky schools. From designing an online learning environment to the use of educational computer games, our ...