Social engagement: Playing an analog game typically brings students together. Initial student interactions are functional: ...

Sarai, age 3, proudly shares her artwork at LWB’s Early Childhood Development Center, where play-based lessons help children build confidence and curiosity. A teacher guides her students through a ...

When we talk about playing and learning, we naturally think of children's museums. Most major cities offer some experience like this, where kids are able to get their hands dirty, and — shocking! — ...

A student demonstrates a double-maze board activity play system that helps develop motor skills, learning and concentration for all children. A team of researchers at SMU is studying active, playful ...

Not too many decades back, children’s libraries and museums contained books that the librarian had to retrieve from the stacks for a child to use or from glass cases of ceramic dolls and toys on ...

Duah: Using puzzles, both at home and in classrooms, can restore the often-forgotten truth that learning happens in ...

Over the course of her career, Temple University's Kathy Hirsh-Pasek has spent a lot of time worrying not just about how to increase playtime in school, but also how to reach kids outside of school.

For children, playful learning is serious learning. “That’s how children learn best,” said Dr. Roberta Golinkoff, Unidel H. Rodney Sharp professor of education at the University of Delaware and ...

Last week, the Town of North Hempstead joined with the Parks and Recreation Department and members of the now-defunct Early Years Institute (EYI) to cut the ribbon on a new outdoor classroom at Martin ...

Professor Marina Bers, chair of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, has been teaching the course Technological Tools for Playful Learning every spring for the 20 years ...