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Pastplay : teaching and learning history with technology / Kevin Kee, editor.

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"In the field of history, the Web and other technologies have become important tools in research and teaching of the past. Yet the use of these tools is limited--many historians and history educators have resisted adopting them because they fail to see how digital tools supplement and even impr...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Kee, Kevin B. (Kevin Bradley), 1969- (Editor)
Other title:Past play
Teaching and learning history with technology
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Series:Digital humanities (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Subjects:
History > Study and teaching > Technological innovations.
History > Study and teaching (Higher) > Technological innovations.
Table of Contents:
  • What has mystery got to do with it? / Ruth Sandwell and John Sutton Lutz
  • "Why can't you just tell us?" : learning Canadian history with the Virtual Historian / Stéphane Lévesque
  • Interactive worlds as educational tools for understanding Arctic life / Richard Levy and Peter Dawson
  • Tecumseh lies here : goals and challenges for a pervasive history game in progress / Timothy Compeau and Robert MacDougall
  • The hermeneutics of screwing around; or what you do with a million books / Stephen Ramsay
  • Abort, retry, pass, fail : games as teaching tools / Sean Gouglas, Mihaela Ilovan, Shannon Lucky, and Silvia Russell
  • Ludic algorithms / Bethany Nowviskie
  • Making and playing with models : using rapid prototyping to explore the history and technology of stage magic / William J. Turkel and Devon Elliott
  • Contests for meaning : playing King Philip's War in the twenty-first century / Matthew Kirscenbaum
  • Rolling your own : on modding commercial games for educational goals / Shawn Graham
  • Simulation games and the study of the past : classroom guidelines / Jeremiah McCall
  • Playing into the past : reconsidering the educational promise of public history exhibits / Brenda Trofanenko
  • Teaching history in an age of pervasive computing : the case for games in the high school and undergraduate classroom / Kevin Kee and Shawn Graham
  • Victorian SimCities : playful technology on Google Earth / Patrick Dunae and John Sutton Lutz
  • True facts or false facts
  • which are more authentic / T. Mills Kelly.

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