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New game-based high-school history course Posted by: Don Tapscott on 05Jun 2009 For a couple of decades I've been advocating a new model of pedagogy that involves technology. For example, I just published a piece in the Edge on the Demise of the University. The purpose of introducing technology into schools isn't to simply digitize existing processes and leave the basic broadcast teaching model unchanged. Instead, technology opens the door to new techniques that focus on the student and allow students to proceed at their own pace. In this spirit, imagine students studying American history with the same concentration and enthusiasm they display when playing their favourite video games. After all, 97 percent of high school students are avid gamers. That's the goal of Conspiracy Code, an online game based course released this week by Florida Virtual School (FLVS), and 360Ed, Inc. an education game development company.

Playing history aggregates info re games on the Web in a searchable database to find, rate, and review historical games. There are currently 131 shared games.

MAKING HISTORY® is a series of counterfactual turn-based strategy games in which players apply their strategic skills to lead their chosen nation through real-world periods of conflict. The goal is not to replay history exactly as it happened, but rather to operate in an unpredictable, player-driven world. Virtually any country is playable across a variety of the game's bundled scenarios, and players can use the MAKING HISTORY® Game Editor to create new scenarios of their own, offering endless hours of gameplay.

Check out this amazing list of games put together in a presentation.

Ontario Grade 3s learn social studies with iPad game

FreePoverty is a geography game that allows participants to contribute in donating water to people all over the world who live in extreme poverty. The game presents a city or landmark, and you have a short amount of time (5 to 10 seconds) to locate it on a map.

"An irreverent, surprising, and fresh approach to teaching social history to secondary schoolers, American Dynasties is an immersive digital video game where players live the lives of Americans from eras past."

As this CNN.com article points out books are being discarded and replaced by digital learning centers and gaming areas. As one might imagine, not everyone is ready for, or embraces, such a change.

As this CNN.com article points out books are being discarded and replaced by digital learning centers and gaming areas. As one might imagine, not everyone is ready for, or embraces, such a change

How many Presidents do you recognize? There are over 4000 K-12 games for teachers and students on http://www.bubbabrain.com

Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more. BOHWS has been recommended by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Council for the Social Studies, The British Library Net, The New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, -- and many others.

EdTechTeacher.org presents The Center for Teaching History with Technology, a resource created to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. Find resources for histlaptop classory and social studies lesson plans, activities, projects, games, and quizzes that use technology. Explore inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects. Learn about new and emerging technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, ipods, and online social networks and explore innnovative ways of integrating them into the curriculum. Find out how others are using technology in the classroom.

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A number of organizations have made studying and understanding young people's engagement with digital media a full time endeavor. One outfit studying young people's use of digital media is Ypulse, a youth insights group operating in San Francisco and New York. In this interview Ypulse discusses, among other things, how youth culture and lifestyles have changed; the evolving role of games in our lives; a wired classroom for third graders; and kids, social media, and privacy.