One of my favorite days of the year is when my employer, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, hosts their annual Grandparents University event. During the two-day session, grandparents and their grandchildren stay at our campus, take a variety of fun mini-courses, and engage in a variety…

I’ve written 53 previous blogs on GamestormEDU, and it’s the first one that is still the most important to me. It was about how all of this started – the games, the company, everything – as a promise to my first daughter. She’s now…

We’ve all felt it before – the phone or laptop sapping our attention away from a more worthwhile pursuit like picking up a book or reading articles. Recent research suggests that our worst fears are true – screens negatively impact literacy development in both…