Keeping kids engaged and entertained is a challenge for many parents and teachers, but board games offer a way to flex ...

These days, children are practically born with the ability to use a smartphone and have an immediate understanding of technology from a young age, and 91 percent of children play video games. In this ...

Although these aren't all strictly educational games, they can still teach players a thing or two about American history.

Digital learning games have officially gone mainstream, with nearly three-quarters of K-8 teachers saying they use the games for classroom instruction, according to a new national survey. But the rise ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

When I was a kid, I didn’t like any toys, games, books, or TV shows that tried to “make learning fun.” I wasn’t dumb; I knew when I was being lied to—learning and fun are mutually exclusive. But ...

Rovio Entertainment has partnered with the educational gaming platform Legends of Learning to make a new series of titles featuring the Angry Birds IP. Much like has been done in the past with ...

Remember that heavy feeling you sometimes got as a kid heading into yet another school day? You likely asked yourself on more than one occasion, "When am I ever going to use any of this in real life?” ...

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 ...

When the Center for Learning through Games and Simulations launches Pages of the Press this fall, it won’t just be creating a ...

Real talk: I think learning is always fun. (Yes, I am absolutely a Ravenclaw. Why do you ask?) But when it’s a literal game? Then it’s even better, especially when you’re a kid. That’s probably why ...