Why we need to make history cool again
Bettany Hughes: The grassroots success of such movies as Spartan gore-fest 300 demonstrates the young's appetite for the subject
Meet the bloggers of Banbury
Children with profound special needs can use all types of new media to help them make connections
Message and medium
Today's actors need to be able to call on a wide range of styles. Selina Cadell ponders how to teach comedy
Jack Good
Obituary: Bletchley codebreaker, he worked closely with Alan Turing
Game Pitch: Oil Productions
Channel 4 have been aggressively commissioning UK games companies to create multi-platform games for their Education strand over the past year, and they've had some rather modest success, including a Bafta for their co-production with Brighton-based Little Loud on Bow Street Runner.
Are computer games a literary genre?
A waste of words, or the driving element in modern gaming? Our writers beg to differ...
At risk from the registers?
Among a proliferation of government databases, the three causing greatest concern over legality, privacy and consent were set up to protect children. By Liz Lightfoot
@SxSWi: Warren Spector on what games can teach us
Veteran game designer Warren Spector was one of a trio of luminaries on the main stage at South by Southwest Interactive this morning discussing what consumers can learn from games
A new jewel in dentistry’s crowns
Restoring a tooth has been done by labour-intensive methods dating from the 18th century - until now
Slumdog professor
The academic whose work inspired the Oscar-winning film has a new project in the UK. Lucy Tobin reports
Scenes from the new class war
We visit a city comprehensive and ask pupils and teachers if our classroooms really are out of control
Brain training? Think again, says study
No scientific evidence to support range of claims that gadgets can help improve memory
The Quest School: Gaming for grades
In the same week as the European Union gave computer games the A-OK, declaring them 'good for children', a new and rather exciting new school opened its doors in New York to the public, celebrating the art of learning through play
Online game data, offline results: Everquest 2 server logs offer insight into offline human behaviour
A consortium of academics announced at the American Association for the Advancement of Science that they have accessed a phenomenal amount of data captured from Everquest 2 that they will use to inform new theories in human behaviour