Video games are essentially complex systems that very young children can learn to navigate very quickly. What if we could leverage the skill with which games teach players to play? Consider the ...

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Video games, like games in general, are inherently educational, but they still haven’t quite taken off in the classroom. Many teachers remain dismissive of video games, or outright hostile ...

To draw a parallel between video gaming and education may cause the more traditional educators to balk at the thought, but recent developments in the field of video game research reveal dramatic ...

Although alternate reality games have been, up to this point, only developed for entertainment, "World Without Oil" has inspired others to develop educational video games.

Educational video games have great potential to hone critical-thinking skills, help teach academic curricula, and evaluate what students learn, concludes a report released last week by a prominent ...

So the MIT Education Arcade is really leading the way, and there's also a teacher's arcade program, where they're showing that there is some effectiveness in using video games.

Later this month, the U.S. Department of Education holds its first Games for Learning Summit in New York City, a gathering of educational experts, students, teachers, game publishers and developers.

This presents a unique problem for sex education. A problem that video games may be able to solve. Sex is a vital part of humanity, and sex ed is a vital part of a well-rounded education.

Forget about my two front teeth, all I want for Christmas is a video game not focused on blood and gore. As a parent of a teenage boy, there are a few shoot ’em up video games in my house. My ex ...

The popularity of educational video games may warrant a committee to grade them for merit and usefulness, like the Entertainment Software Rating Board does for objectionable material like sex and ...