PCGamesN: This US teacher uses Humankind and Civilization to teach world history

[The_J]

https://www.pcgamesn.com/civilization-vi/humankind-class-teaching

An excerpt:

“In the normal classroom we go over the primary theme of each era. Then, in the gaming portion they play a giant multiplayer game where they are given objectives of things their civilisation (or precursor civilisation) actually did in history. When students complete their objectives we go over them in class, using the real-life events as a case study to examine the primary theme of the era.”

 

[Boris Gudenuf]

Good job but nothing new: 15 years ago when I was home-schooling my stepson, I had him play a couple of scenarios of Pharoah to learn about daily life in ancient Egypt and, in general, how different/similar people's needs and desires are from 2000 BCE to 2000 CE.

A good historical game is a wonderful teaching tool . . .

 

[The_J]

There have been also other attempts before to educate with Civ (see our 30 years retrospect), but it's still always nice to hear about those things .