Elementary school would have been much more interesting if educational field trips involved creating our own levels in video games. For one class of seventh graders at Evergreen School, a trip to Valve Software provided exactly that. After instructing these students to create their own levels for the popular video game title Portal using Valve’s [...]
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If you've played games like Team Fortress 2 or the Portal titles, you know that Valve loves making players learn. The company's already got a foothold in bringing their games into the educational space and that commitment's going to... Read Post
A fifth grader was suspended this week after he brought a Swiss army knife on a school sponsored camping trip. According to Education Views, Braden Bandermann and his class at Garden Gate Elementary School took a science-oriented ca... Read Post
Who ever said being a scientific guinea pig couldn't be educational? With Steam for Schools, teachers can now use Portal 2's level editor to create lessons focused on boosting critical thinking, spatial reasoning and problem solving... Read Post