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With educational intent, role-playing games can provide a narrative that holds students' attention and be customized to teach specific lessons.

A middle school librarian and makerspace teacher planned a unit focused on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

When even the most esoteric information is only a Siri question away, why waste time memorizing anything? Neuroscience can give us some clues as to why.

The New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project and companion curriculum is being used by teachers to change the narrative of American history lessons in the classroom.

Bring students in from the sidelines to participate fully in group discussion.

After her son died by suicide in April, Michelle Oliver collaborated with an English teacher to look at Shakespeare's famous "love story" in a new way and to teach her students about suicide awareness.

Hours of research and conversations with survivors aided the author as she pieced together the tragic story a 1940 attack on a ship carrying children from war-torn England to Canada.

Migrant kids in foster care and secure holding facilities will get books thanks to a new grant from First Book, plus coming titles from Lois Lowry and Megan Rapinoe, and more news.

Inspiring projects, discussions of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and creating with—not just consuming—augmented and virtual reality were just some of the highlights of ISTE 2019.