News Up for a Challenge? Balance the Fed’s Budget in The Fiscal Ship David Wessel spent 30 years at the Wall Street Journal, and he says he never…Linda BrenemanMay 2, 2016
News Minecraft News: NYT’s Free Minecraft World & Minecraft EDU Over the weekend, the New York Times Magazine published an article about Minecraft and education called…Linda BrenemanApril 18, 2016
NewsVideo MIT Tests Responsive Robot To Teach Kids Languages Researchers at MIT have been working on squishy robots for a while, like a blue teddy bear that…Linda BrenemanMarch 29, 2016
News New Research Says Video Gaming Kids Are More Social and Smarter Conventional wisdom may still say video games are a bad thing, but the evidence is…Linda BrenemanMarch 15, 2016
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News Minecraft: Educational Edition Coming This Summer In a move that makes total sense to us, Microsoft has announced that they are…Courtney HolmesJanuary 19, 2016
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Feature Pierrepont Machinima Brings Ovid, Shakespeare to Schools Imagine a performance of Ovid’s “Phaethon” at a public school—but not just any performance. In…Linda BrenemanDecember 23, 2015
News Educational Game Devs Struggle for Traction in the U.S. The website Gamesandlearning.org just published a report by Sande Chen, a serious-games consultant and author.…Linda BrenemanNovember 24, 2015
News U.K. Students Create MolCraft, a Minecraft World That Teaches Biochemistry In the U.K., students at The University of Hull have created a Minecraft world that…Linda BrenemanNovember 9, 2015
News Mattel’s New View-Master Jumps Into Virtual Reality Mattel has launched a new version of its classic toy, the View-Master, that works with smartphones…Linda BrenemanOctober 13, 2015
News Google Announces Virtual-Reality Field Trips No more boring photos and films, kids! Now you can stand on the top of…Linda BrenemanOctober 9, 2015