At a tournament in DC, students compete to identify states from their shapes on a blank US map. They're having fun while acquiring factual knowledge that enables them to think critically. The ...

Gautam Anand, a high school senior from Rochester, Minn., created the fast-growing game WorldGuessr to help people get a taste of life in other parts of the world—and, with more than 50,000 downloads ...

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Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for apps, operating systems and devices, as well as mobile gaming and Apple Arcade news. Shelby also ...

These days, children are practically born with the ability to use a smartphone and have an immediate understanding of technology from a young age, and 91 percent of children play video games. In this ...

The rules for playing Mystery Skype are simple: Students can only ask "yes" or "no" questions, and whichever class guesses the other's location first wins. At Glasgow Middle School in Alexandria, Va., ...

National Geographic Animal Jam is a rarity as a successful kids virtual world. The online world is announcing today that it has reached a million registered players in seven months. Sure, virtual ...

The most valuable piece of art in our house is a cheap, colorful map of the United States that hangs above our kitchen table. As a learning tool, it’s priceless. I hung it up when we moved from Texas ...

It’s so important to read good children’s geography books so that our children understand concepts such as communities and a global perspective. Read the picture books aloud with your growing readers ...

Learning is a chore. Literally, it’s the first thing many of us encounter that we are told we have to do in spite of the fact we don’t want to. We know it's important for us to learn about things like ...