Last week, the Center for Digital Education's (CDE’s) community of chief academic officers came together to discuss wins and challenges in their work to transform education. As always, the ...

Professor Marina Bers, chair of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, has been teaching the course Technological Tools for Playful Learning every spring for the 20 years ...

A fun weekend event designed to help young children feel more comfortable with medical settings, procedures, and doctors and ...

Over the course of her career, Temple University's Kathy Hirsh-Pasek has spent a lot of time worrying not just about how to increase playtime in school, but also how to reach kids outside of school.

— -- Many apps provide kids with playful ways to approach learning. Some are so stealthy about their educational agenda that kids don't initially realize they're learning. Here are four apps that ...

A student demonstrates a double-maze board activity play system that helps develop motor skills, learning and concentration for all children. A team of researchers at SMU is studying active, playful ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. This week, Microsoft announced a couple of new additions to their "playful learning" line of family games aimed ...

Throughout the years, seeing one class period after the next, one semester after the next, one graduating class after the next, I can safely say, school would benefit from more playful moments. As ...