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Wayzata Plymouth Creek Elementary School Media Center provides an extensive list of digital games that can be used in the library to help students learn and improve their library skills such as ABC order, fiction and nonfiction, the parts of a book, genres, and finding books online and on the shelf.

This article comes from PSU's Education magazine. It's about bringing gaming into the K-12 classroom.

Mr. Nussbaum has created an impressive resource list of educational, interactive games and websites divided by educational category.

My sisters had the CDs of these educational games when we were growing up but now JumpStart has it's own virtual world for kids.

A teacher brought in two experts via Google Hangout to meet with some students working in a computer gaming program. The students were able to takeaway tips from the experts for their programming and connect with "real" designers.

A variety of interactive map games for kids of all ages.

Great problem-solving, simulation, game for business students. The object is to become the Carnival Manager: A local fun-filled carnival / theme-park urgently requires a virtual managing director to oversee ride and attraction construction, the hiring of staff, general park management, strategic planning, and financial budgeting.

Online quiz and activity creation for the classroom.

This is both a quiz creator and delivery method. I have used this in my classroom with great success.

Quia is paid software that allows teachers to create or modify existing drill and practice and instructional games for a specific grade level or content focus. Pre-existing games can often be used for free.

The web game that combines the telephone game with simple drawing.

A LibGuide from the James C. Kirkpatrick Library at the University of Central Missouri. Provides a ton of resources about various aspects of gaming in education, including the important of play, digital learning, game-based learning, gamification, and subject area examples.

A thorough article about various aspects of games and information literacy in the digital age. Includes a list of references and an embedded TEDx talk from noted teacher-librarian and researcher Joyce Valenza.

This study from Pew Research Center offers a good look at just who in American culture plays digital games regularly. The statistics here might be surprising.

In this TEDx Talks video, Prof. Christopher See discusses what games and education have in common and how games can be used to increase student engagement.

A blog focused on games used in language teaching.

Games with science content incorporated into it.

Great games that engage students in science

"Imagine if kids poured their time and passion into a video game that taught them math concepts while they barely noticed, because it was so enjoyable," Bill Gates said. This article talks about what role games should play in the classroom.