People who play massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) may notprefer the company of avatars to live humans after all. In fact, reports new research supported by the United States Air Force Research Laboratory, online gaming expands players' social lives.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/10/14
The number of students who maintain a profile on a social networking site has decreased by nearly 40 percent in the last five years according to a new report from Project Tomorrow. This year only 30 percent of middle school students (grades 6-8) and 39 percent of high school students (grades 9-10) told researchers they were actively using such a site.
To enter, students create games using GameMaker Studio or GameMaker Lite.
Researchers at the University of Southern California's Game Innovation Lab and Rossier School of Education have developed research-based educational games for classroom use.
Common Sense Media’s service Graphite, which offers independent ratings and reviews on learning apps and websites, has compiled this list of its top apps and websites that help teach algebra.
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- 03/20/14
Sylvan Learning has launched SylvanPlay, a network of educational games for children in grades 1 through 4. The games are available for iOS and Android mobile devices.
The sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade English Language Arts curriculum includes an e-library stocked with more than 300 works of fiction and nonfiction, and also comes with more than 40 digital games.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 03/03/14
The Napa County Office of Education is providing an English and Spanish literacy tool to preschoolers and their schools and families at no charge.
A group of students at Brigham Young University in Utah recently created an online game for the Library of Congress designed to encourage kids to get off their digital devices and back into books.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/13/14
The mobile games can be accessed through any browser, from any device, and are designed to make correlations between standards and skills practiced in a game.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 02/12/14