Madness and Civilization III

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Jonathan Dresner is right: in my earlier post about history and play, I was a bit too flip in dismissing as “teacher logic” the instinct to leverage activities like computer games into historical learning. In this post, I’ll reconsider computer games—or, as the kids today call them, “games”—as teaching tools, and offer my take on two questions:

1. Why computer games are not effective tools for teaching history.
2. How they could be.

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[Cross-posted from Old is the New New. Comments welcome here or there.]