MORE PLAY LESS TEST PREP: GameDesk, known for its unique model of research and game development, launched its latest project, Educade at ISTE13 this week. Educade is website containing dozens of ...

WASHINGTON ― As part of its Science & Entertainment Exchange, the National Academy of Sciences today announced that the GameDesk Institute will be awarded $225,000 to develop its Science in Motion ...

Facebook created a $100 billion empire on top of a “hacker culture,” a workplace ethos that encourages wild experimentation and collaborative fun. Now, AT&T is betting $3.8 million that one school, ...

Bill Nye is back again — this time, though, he’s not teaching science on the tube or challenging the skeptics of evolution. Instead, the former Boeing engineer is helping launch a neat Kickstarter ...

Over at Motion Math Games, a developer GeekDad has long admired for bringing math to kinesthetic learners, they have put their app where more apps should be - under the researcher's microscope. They ...

GameDesk is a fantastic nonprofit interested in creating a world where play, games, education and equity converge. It is an emerging player in the education technology space which comes from a solid ...

You can design games around lessons. But can you design a lesson around a game? That’s what GameDesk, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit, wants to encourage with Educade, a new online portal where teachers ...

AT&T’s recent investment in educational games is just one example of how good things can happen when the boardroom and the classroom meet. As the afterglow of early May’s Teacher Appreciation Week ...

At first glance, it might seem like the students who attend the private K-12 New Roads School in Santa Monica, California, are simply playing video and computer games all day. But these students are ...

Gamification has grown in popularity as teachers and educators realize the wealth of potential that games offer their students, no matter the age. Fast fading is the idea that video games are a waste ...

Gamification is a major buzzword in learning. Now, thanks to the support of AT&T, it has a marquee national initiative that will truly test the proposition of whether video games can motivate at-risk ...

Move over "Angry Birds." Bill Nye "The Science Guy" is working on his own physics game starring our airborne avian friends. The beloved bow-tie-wearing scientist and TV personality has joined forces ...