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Learning Historical Content In Media #159

Closed aukele closed 8 years ago

aukele commented 8 years ago

I feel it is a struggle for students to find time to learn their history. In video games story lines could be accurate, but tend to stray to conspiracy most of the time. If we could look at this issue a bit closer, we could help the youth in their education, and speaking their language through video games.

rcrath commented 8 years ago

@aukele what form would you see that taking as a digital humanities project?

sapira23 commented 8 years ago

It is a great observation, and i agree that now days media is the main platform to address any population about any subject, especially education. I think that there are great apps that do a great job in engaging youths in playful and educative games, and teach them all sorts of things. As a matter of fact, i was talking to my neighbor in the park, and she told me that she had constructed an app for her 3 yr old, to teach her computer code, and programing. Can you believe it? This just means that apps could be used to teach history in an interesting and engaging manner. More research needs to be done in order to find out if such apps exist on the market. That is my next assignment :)

rcrath commented 8 years ago

@sapira23 what do you mean by an app? Are you including desktop applications (VUE, MSWord, LibreOffice), or do you mean on mobile devices only? (iPads, tablets, phones running IOS or Android...the app model).

Also, I would ask you or anyone else to address what form such an app would take for teaching history. WHat would it need to have? Can we think of a specific example use case to keep things manageable?

sapira23 commented 8 years ago

I actually meant apps for mobile devices such as IPads and smart phones! I believe that an app that aim at teaching history should first have an overall theme, for example "history of the pacific islands". Than there should be some sort of time line with major events and developments. There should be sub topics such as culture and society, economy, colonization in the case of the pacific, and also oral traditions. So there should be the educative part, and than there should be some sort of game that put this information in to test and basically reinforce the knowledge in an interesting manner. It is kind of a general idea that I have off the top of my head.

rcrath commented 8 years ago

@sapira23 check out twine. You can write games and interactive fiction with no programming knowledge. Would you like to do your project as a game to test your idea?. You already have a topic, right? It will work on any platform, mobile or desktop.

sapira23 commented 8 years ago

That is a very interesting idea! My topic is actually learning in the Internet, so It sounds good to create a learning game, which be my project. I will look in to Twine and see if I can figure out how to do it. I might need your help if that is ok!

rcrath commented 8 years ago

glad to help.

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 5:13 AM sapira23 notifications@github.com wrote:

That is a very interesting idea! My topic is actually learning in the Internet, so It sounds good to create a learning game, which be my project. I will look in to Twine and see if I can figure out how to do it. I might need your help if that is ok!

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jsuyeto commented 8 years ago

I would actually love to help @sapira23 on this project! as a Pacific Studies Major, I love learning anything having to do with the Pacific. And if I could help in putting in my two cents on this project, that would be great. And perhaps we could look at linguistics, migration theories, and cosmogonies and maybe tie them in with documented histories and local folklore while educating the user on mythology, culture, and language. Like a virtual Bishop Museum.

Jordan

rcrath commented 8 years ago

@aukele, @sapira23 @jsuyeto Aukele, Have not heard from you in a while on this, even though you started it. I would be willing to consider a two or three person project if you can work out the subject material and the responsibilities for each of you on this page. We are ging to have an intro to twine next week. It is pretty simple, but you will have to think through the game. Our work on hypertext, chunking, and paths will help.

Aukele (distance learning and martial arts) and Jordan (.tv and the internet in tuvalu) have projects that are pretty specific as far as content. How about an internet-trained jujitsu specialist who is hired on the internet as internet labor fighting his way through the various life options tha having or not having internet access in Tuvalu provides? I think that gets all your projects....Really though, how would you work together on this? or would you rather work alone?

sapira23 commented 8 years ago

Thanks for your offer Jordan, @jsuyeto but I am not sure what Is my specific topic yet. And also, I just gave the history of the pacific as an example, I don't think that I want this to be my topic. I want to have my project on how the use of computers and Internet access contributed to the development of virtual environment learning. I want to talk about developments that led to people learning on the Internet