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Today's online games based on maps are not only fun but they are very cool educational tools. Kids of today have it so much better with all the edutainment stuff they can call up with a mouse click. Help your kids learn more about the world with these ten online geography games. You too can jump in.

"When it comes to education, it seems as though there are always interesting issues to discuss. Issues of inequality, teacher pay, and other hot button subjects are always being tackled. This happens in real life, of course, but it also happens in the movies. In some cases, a movie can make what goes on in real life more poignant. This is especially true if you are dealing with a documentary. If you are interested in movies about education, you can learn a lot from the messages you find in movies. Here are 25 of the best movies about education ever made, including movies made for entertainment, and documentaries:"

"A new fortnightly segment where we look at 10 films set against an educational backdrop and explore what they can teach us and what we can learn from them. Every week, StarEducate brings you the nation's leading education news, stories and issues. But education does not start or stop with the schoolground or the campus. Teaching and learning can take place anywhere, including via the chosen medium for this segment: film. When we explore what a film can teach us or what we can learn from it, we usually look at its themes or overarching messages. A film usually has more than one theme to explore or analyse, but for the purposes of generating first-step analysis and discussion for this series, Reel Education will look at the main theme."