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Teaching History In Schools With Video Games

Posted by michael on from the history-written-by-the-winners dept.

Joe writes "There's a story about a Massachusetts company, Muzzy Lane Software, creating a Civ-style simulation computer game to teach history to high school and college students. 'Our view isn't that you take the right video game, stick it in a classroom and everything gets better,' Mr. McCool said. 'But with the right tools, this can significantly enhance learning.'"

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  1. Great. Another way to program our kids. . . by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Yeah. Games are an amazingly powerful way to bake thought patterns into people's brains.

    Witness the opening salvos of the Iraqi war. --A LOT of people around these parts had enthusiastic Command & Conquer images running through their minds and emotions when that fiasco was going down. It was obvious and disgusting. I wonder how many troops currently serving in Iraq have played Doom?

    So yeah. 'Teaching' history? A video game is certainly going to be effective in doing this. The problem is that any information approved by the school system is going to be based largely on lies. Goebbels would have probably used the video game medium too, had it been available.


    -FL