Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History

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Despite the growing number of books designed to radically reconsider the educational value of video games as powerful learning tools, there are very few practical guidelines conveniently available for prospective history and social studies teachers who actually want to use these teaching and learning tools in their classes. As the games and learning field continues to grow in importance, Gaming the Past provides social studies teachers and teacher educators help in implementing this unique and engaging new ...

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Overview

Despite the growing number of books designed to radically reconsider the educational value of video games as powerful learning tools, there are very few practical guidelines conveniently available for prospective history and social studies teachers who actually want to use these teaching and learning tools in their classes. As the games and learning field continues to grow in importance, Gaming the Past provides social studies teachers and teacher educators help in implementing this unique and engaging new pedagogy. This book focuses on specific examples to help social studies educators effectively use computer simulation games to teach critical thinking and historical analysis. Chapters cover the core parts of conceiving, planning, designing, and implementing simulation based lessons. Additional topics covered include:

  • Talking to colleagues, administrators, parents, and students about the theoretical and practical educational value of using historical simulation games.
  • Selecting simulation games that are aligned to curricular goals
  • Determining hardware and software requirements, purchasing software, and preparing a learning environment incorporating simulations
  • Planning lessons and implementing instructional strategies
  • Identifying and avoiding common pitfalls
  • Developing activities and assessments for use with simulation games that facilitate the interpretation and creation of established and new media

Also included are sample unit and lesson plans and worksheets as well as suggestions for further reading. The book ends with brief profiles of the majority of historical simulation games currently available from commercial vendors and freely on the Internet.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415887601
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 6/6/2011
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 216
  • Sales rank: 905,985
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Jeremiah McCall, has been teaching high school history for the past decade, mostly at Cincinnati Country Day School. His first professional love is high school teaching, especially designing instructional strategies that will engage and challenge his students to learn and grow. In addition to teaching more conventional courses that incorporate simulation gaming, he teaches senior electives on (tabletop) historical simulation design, and the intersection of serious computer games and contemporary global issues. McCall has a PhD in ancient history from Ohio State University; he authored a book on the cavalry of the Roman Republic (Routledge 2001) and continues to research and write on Roman history topics. McCall has spoken regularly at conferences on games and learning like the Education Arcade and the Games, Learning & Society Workshop, and delivers school workshops on using historical simulation games. He maintains the website historicalsimulations.org, one of the primary sites devoted to the use of historical simulations in classroom teaching.

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Table of Contents


  2. Why Play Historical Simulation Games: Making the Case to Administrators, Parents, Colleagues, and Students
  3. What Makes a Valid Simulation Game?
  4. Matching Genres of Historical Simulation Games to History and Social Studies Curricular Content
  5. Instructional Strategies
  6. Putting it all together: Learning Exercises, Assessments, and Sample Lesson Plans
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