So you want to know what the best educational games are? Well, good for you. Educational videogames can provide fun and unique learning experiences, and we're not afraid to say that they can actually ...

If you spend more than an hour a day playing video games, that’s 5% of your life. Will this time investment do anything good for your brain? This is a question that my colleagues and I at UC Santa ...

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A little over 50 years ago, a student teacher in Minneapolis hit upon a novel idea to engage his eighth grade American history class in a unit on westward expansion. Don Rawitsch, with the help of two ...

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