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Michal Ciezadlik, 15 July 2021, 15:54

Esports has come out of the closet and is no longer treated as the domain of computer geeks. Some schools started treating it as one of many classroom subjects. Check out the textbook of one such school.

Jacob Blazewicz, 12 August 2020, 22:44

The British charity National Literary Trust has published the results of a survey on the relationship between video games and reading. The survey shows that gaming can be an incentive to develop writing and reading skills as well as empathy.

Bart Swiatek, 24 June 2020, 18:46

The 11 bit studios company has confirmed that from the school year 2020/2021 its work - This War of Mine - will be optional „reading” for high school students.

Bart Swiatek, 04 June 2020, 11:57

One of Reddit user decided to teach his son to read using Minecraft. The father created a special table with the names of individual items.

Damian Gacek, 26 April 2020, 21:12

A message about the creation of a new map - Blockdown - appeared on the official website of Minecraft. It is supposed to make players, especially the younger ones, aware of the threat of COVID-19 and how it is spreading. The project was created by AKQA in support of the #TommorowTogether initiative.

Agnes Adamus, 20 April 2020, 21:04

On the official Netflix YouTube channel, 34 documentary productions including the Oscar-winning Period. End Of Sentence, has available. This will make it easier for teachers and students to access educational materials.

Bart Swiatek, 16 April 2020, 14:47

The administrators of one of the so-called private servers of World of Warcraft - Elysium - decided to create an event aimed at educating players on issues such as the spread of infectious diseases and ways to fight them. The idea came up in connection with the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.

Paul Wozniak, 25 March 2020, 15:43

Microsoft has decided to share some of the lessons from the educational version of Minecraft for free. This enables us to visit the replica of the ISS space station, the capital of the USA or the inside of the human eye in the game. There are also materials for learning Greek history or becoming a marine biologist.

Bart Swiatek, 25 March 2020, 10:11

A California teacher decided to use virtual reality in his classes. But he did not do it in the usual way. Instead, he used the latest shooter from Valve Software - Half-Life: Alyx.

Bart Swiatek, 11 September 2019, 11:25

Ubisoft has release the educational mode for Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, known as Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece. The add-on is free for the owners of the base version of the game, but the PC also has a paid standalone version.

Konrad Serafinski, 11 August 2019, 23:37

There is a special school in North London where students are among the first in the world to have video game classes. Children play popular titles together to develop their social skills.

luckie, 28 September 2017, 11:14

Assassin's Creed fans have long waited for a chance of visiting ancient Egypt. Thanks to the all new Discovery Tour mode, included in Assassin’s Creed Origins, players will be able to have a combat-free tour across the in-game open world.