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 ...

Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based ...

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 ...

Through culturally relevant themes and virtual interactions, students learn to explore the world, their social relationships and how games work. As educators seek tools for online environments, one of ...

Penn State provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. When most of us think about learning, we imagine a teacher and a classroom. In reality most of the things we know, and a great ...

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.

Rhys James Jones does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...