Games don't Equal Academic Achievement - 20 views
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Makes a good point. There's a big difference between showing games help students learn, and finding games that match the much more narrow objectives of a class.
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Go for it, Bryan. If you want to kick ideas around, let me know.
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Will certainly do.
Gaming the Cuban revolution - 0 views
Assassin's Creed IV, Ubiculturality, and Stede Bonnet: an Invitation | Play The Past - 2 views
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A fine way to think about history in these games. I like the preceding post as well, http://www.playthepast.org/?p=4260 .
Learning from a WWII game - 2 views
Avant-Garde - 0 views
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Designed to show conflict between realism and modernism. Can find the game here: http://www.gamezhero.com/games/avantgarde
» Syllabus #HIST3812 - 5 views
Barbarian vs Civ game - 3 views
Debating Emancipation, Online! - 0 views
Abraham Lincoln's Crossroads - 1 views
With video games, public diplomacy by mobile phone - SmartPlanet - 0 views
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MetroStar Systems, a 75-employee tech start-up contracted by the State Department to bring a better understanding of the United States to the countries with which it has less-than-amicable relations. The company plans to do so with X-Life Games, an initiative that effectively wraps a U.S. history lesson inside a downloadable video game for a mobile phone.
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The products of this initiative — so far, “Driven,” a car-racing trivia game, and “Babangar Blues,” a music-based role-playing game — are intended to “demystify” the U.S. to foreign audiences, starting with the Middle East.
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Ironically, the trivia very much resembles the test administered to new citizens. I asked Manouchehri if it was really fair to expect an Iranian to know who Patrick Henry was. “The hope is that they’ll look them up,” he said.
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