You make up a crime, with all characters and different places of action. Your child has to figure out who is the murder by asking you questions and developing the story on its own. This game can be ...

While you are in a waiting room at doctors, or when your child isn’t sleepy enough you can always play game “I spy with my little eye…”. You imagine one object from the room and you just say the first ...

t Independence Day is a holiday rich with fireworks, food and fun. For students of all ages, the last two, food and fun, also offer an opportunity to enhance problem-solving skills. This July Fourth, ...

Many people have the image of video games as socially isolating, if not psychologically addicting. Yet, like my friend Kristin demonstrated when she joined her son in the online game Wizard101 (see ...

Karen "Kat" Schrier receives funding from Templeton World Charity and from the Belfer Foundation for work on games and learning. There is a lot of discussion in the United States about how to help ...

In my last post (Video Games, Problem-Solving and Self-Efficacy - Part 1), I talked about how games are just one part of the changing media environment that creates new assumptions and expectations ...

Introduction -- pt. I. What are knowledge games? -- Contribution -- Design -- pt. II. Why knowledge games? -- Problem solving -- Motivation -- Social interaction ...