Games can serve as platforms for lessons in math, science or just about anything — even if they weren’t designed to be educational.

The quality of an idea and the collective quality of the effects of that idea are two very different things.

Good candidates for game-based learning games include Portal 2, Civilization VI, Democracy 4, and Assassin’s Creed Museum Tour.

In a digital classroom, teachers can become worried that no ‘real learning’ is happening or that they’ve somehow failed to plan sufficiently.

Rub a needle with a magnet, float it on a leaf in water, and watch it align north-south. Explore magnetism and navigation!