In 1964 30 sixth grade students from Westchester County did something nobody else had ever done before: they learned from a computer game. Today the computer’s usefulness as an educational tool has ...

Today we’re going to talk about how computer science can support learning. Today we’re going to go a little meta and talk about how computer science can support learning with educational technology.

Future teachers see educational potential in computer games, study shows. Teacher training should therefore address their potential in the classroom. Future teachers see educational potential in ...

Computer-assisted learning (CAL) has increasingly become a focal point in education research, offering a promising alternative and supplement to traditional classroom instruction. Empirical studies ...

This is a response to a recent blog post by Stephen Wolfram, “How to Teach Computational Thinking.” (We published an excerpt of Wolfram’s post here.) I recently read Stephen Wolfram’s blog post about ...

Computer science professor Gloria Childress Townsend has been named a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest scientific and educational computing society.

Way back before the days of microcomputers, a few very lucky students first got their hands wet with microcomputer trainers. These simple devices used common logic chips, lights, and switches to ...

The Educational Service Center of the Western Reserve has been awarded state funding aimed at heightening computer science courses for K-12 educators. The program specifically allows educators who ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, PLATO was used as a groundbreaking computer-aided instruction (CAI) system, equipped with modern features such as beautiful graphics and touch screens for the time. Summarized ...

New study results by a research team at the University of Cologne show that future teachers increasingly want to use computer games in the classroom. The study identifies particularly relevant aspects ...