Do you think games should be used more as a teaching tool in schools, like using HOI3 for history for example?
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Only if followed by a school trip to Auschwitz or Sttuthof to give the young people the kind of perspective no war game can give them?
well i wasn't thinking just war games, you could use a game like portal for physics or something like that aswell
They still have jews there? If not, a video would be more appropriate
There's a museum at each site. I think you can visit them online, but it's a good place to see with your own eyes at some point of your life. Earlier being better of course.
Yes. I believe that, in the future, all kids will be educated with the help of computer games. There's no real reason why not, and it would probably be easier to update those games than to update every single text book the teachers use whenever that is needed (I found an old text book where Russia was still called the Soviet Union when I first started school, for example).
i know a couple of people that visted the sites, they said it quite odd, the place feels wrong. that something they said dosn't transplant with a video
We are in Sweden. Swedes drink coffee... Lots of it. I suggest you thoroughly investigate the concept of "Fika" before arriving
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Tea, Earl Grey, hot.
"should" is a big word, but I do believe education in general (&schools as an obvious part of that) could do a lot more with using a broader range of instruments in engaging students with the subject matter.
Just like experiments (& "construction challenges") are used to good effect to get students interested in chemistry, physics, games (and movies) could do a lot, IMO, in getting people interested in history &c.
Oh, and in learning (sw)English
scotland? i'm sure that where he's/its from as he waded into the scotish poltics thread with aplomb
Uhm... you do know that those portals are not real and that they kind of are against all known laws of physics?
Would be a bit like using Star trek movies to teach history...
For physics I would rather suggest a game more like bridgebuilder or Garrys mod.
G-Mod physics allow me to surf on a board by picking it up with the Physics Gun and standing on top of it.
I'm not sure how that's better than Portal.
Not having played it much myself I thought the point of those tools was just to help you assemble things operating under the real laws of physics quicker?
In portal the portals is more like everything
Anyway my point was "games more like" not games identical too.
I like the concept in general of using games as educations, but there are far to few games that work well as educational games out there!
Would be cool to see Paradox take on a game not about history.
I'm pretty sure you can get that stuff more or less anywhere.
It is already happening. Over the years we have gotten requests from schools that want to use our games to teach history on several occasions. It is something we are happy to encourage of course. Teachers use different games, but mostly EU3. I think the important part is to have proper discussions around it so you don't just unleash the kids and expect all of them to magically become history buffs.
Yes, we do have Earl Grey in Sweden...
I'm also a tea drinker, no coffee for me even though I was born here.
Us foreigners refer to tea by their type, rather than just 'tea' like the British do. So when you talk about Earl Grey or English Breakfast, it is a clear sign you are not from the British Isles.