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New 'Civilization' Game Will Be Sold To Schools As An Educational Tool (technobuffalo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In the fall of 2017, a special version of Civilization V will be made available for schools to use as an educational tool. "CivilizationEDU will provide students with the opportunity to think critically and create historical events, consider and evaluate the geographical ramifications of their economic and technological decisions, and to engage in systems thinking and experiment with the causal/correlative relationships between military, technology, political and socioeconomic development," announced Take-Two Interactive Software.
"We are incredibly proud to lend one of our industry's most beloved series to educators to use as a resource to inspire and engage students further..." said the company's CEO. "I can't think of a better interactive experience to help challenge and shape the minds of tomorrow's leaders."
Special lesson plans will be created around the game, and as an alternative to standardized tests teachers will have access to a dashboard showing each student's progress. Of course, this begs an important question: Are educational videogames a good idea?
"We are incredibly proud to lend one of our industry's most beloved series to educators to use as a resource to inspire and engage students further..." said the company's CEO. "I can't think of a better interactive experience to help challenge and shape the minds of tomorrow's leaders."
Special lesson plans will be created around the game, and as an alternative to standardized tests teachers will have access to a dashboard showing each student's progress. Of course, this begs an important question: Are educational videogames a good idea?
"It's good to know that hills were made by glaciers but that one sentence would have been enough information in that regard."
Except that it would be wrong. You should have paid attention when the subject of Plate Tectonics came up.
Mountains and hills are the result of Tectonic activity; Glaciers are but one example of Erosional forces that tend to even them out again. One oddity of Glaciers near where I live: the hills are scattered with boulders that originated some two hundred miles to the East. But then the hills around here are rising at an average of a couple of millimeters a year, and the eroded tops of them are covered with the fossils of shellfish deposited some 500,000 years ago, when we were in an inland sea.