<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 5:23 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_1152300992773847799WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> </span></p><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline" class="gmail_default"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif">What I am looking for now is a game that is analogous to Civilization but teaches actual history.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif">Anyone know?<span class="gmail-HOEnZb"></span></span></p><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif">spike</span></p></font></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline" class="gmail_default">No, but consider this: I get really antsy in movies about books I have read. A lot worse, of course, but mainly it's that the action goes very slowly. Now consider the content of the typical textbook: highly condensed information unless it's an extremely wordy book. In short, you can learn much more in a text than some movie or video or, presumably, game in the same amount of time. <br><br>Take From Dawn to Decadence, by Jacques Barzun. Most interesting history book I've ever read by far, perhaps mainly because it's a history of ideas, not kings and dates.<br><br>bill w<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_1152300992773847799WordSection1"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline" class="gmail_default"></div><u></u><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif"> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@<wbr>lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>…</b></span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif;color:black"></span><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">A colleague of mine in the English dept. and I agreed - going to class and giving a presentation is Showtime! You have to interest them and put on a show. Sounds degrading, doesn't it? Nah. Just doing what is necessary.</span> billw</span> <u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif">Ja. As a content provider, a college professor is being required to compete against plenty of alternative means of mastering material. Many of those alternatives are becoming most competent.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif">The Civilization game does a marvelous job of communicating a history meme so long underemphasized: culture is driven by technology. In the Civilization battles, it is clear that he who gets the best technology soonest wins. In that game the barbarians are a constant menace, but if a Civilization player invests in a few key technologies, he can get archery. Then when he does, he can just stand back from the barbarians at a safe distance and twang em off.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif">What I am looking for now is a game that is analogous to Civilization but teaches actual history.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif">Anyone know?<span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri",sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></font></span></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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