Games Like ‘Fortnite’ and ‘Minecraft’ Helped Some Kids Survive Pandemic Boredom. Could They Also Help Counter STEM Learning Loss?

Joan S. Reed

Sticky problems abound in education these days, but one recent afternoon as teacher Nathan Finley walked students through the latest level of a new, original maze-like video game they were designing, a particular problem loomed large. Finley couldn’t get the level to end. “We just now created our ‘end object,’” […]

Business Pandemic Recovery Initiative

Joan S. Reed

Players move frequently and easily from college to high school, on the lookout for the following little bit of barely greener grass; and there might be not much hard-working coaches and schools can do about it. Study of advanced financial problems encountered by a agency in investments, in management of […]

Science fiction for the pandemic times that we inhabit

Joan S. Reed

Afew months ago, when the second covid wave was surging through the West but seemed far away from India, a Silicon Valley-based friend, the most voracious reader I know, asked me how I thought the pandemic could affect fiction. “More dystopic novels, post-apocalyptic speculative fiction” was my guess. Speculative fiction, […]