Whatever I did needed to encourage retrieval: Students would have to engage with previously taught content. What first ...

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 ...

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, ...

Future teachers see educational potential in computer games, study shows. Teacher training should therefore address their potential in the classroom. Future teachers see educational potential in ...

Why games matter: Play supports cognitive growth, self-regulation, and social skills, making it a powerful tool for both academic and personal development. Classroom-ready ideas: Teachers are using ...

I learned quite a bit from a tiny robot named 2-XL. If you’re not an official Old™ like me, you may not remember this kids’ toy, which first appeared in 1978, and was a glorified 8-track cassette ...

Student engagement is vital for any educator throughout the length of a course. The unfortunate reality is that a great teacher only has control of a student’s environment for a short period of time.

I asked teachers on social media to share their favorite classroom learning games that are not online and received many responses. This post lists just a few of them. If you’re not familiar with the ...