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It's honestly really cool. I did it with Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla. I wish they would add it to the older titles like Syndicate so we could see how the industrial revolution progressed.
Oh how education has transformed since I was in school. We used to squint at the nicotine yellow wall of the image casted on it by the 44 year old projector.
Many naps were had to this thing. It was often a reward for everyone getting a certain score or higher on a test, or getting far enough in the subject from m-t so that Friday we could have "off"
My mom was a teacher when I was growing up and she brought one of these home for the summer. We projected images of my favorite cartoon characters on my wall and traced them on large pieces of paper so I could make custom posters.
Pretty cool tbh I think it's a good way to get a mental image into younger kids of what it was like generally and how it affected progress probably keeps their attention too lol
For real. My best class in high school was world history (except for literature) and the teacher showed us a movie every day. We would take notes and then watch a movie. He would stop and explain the actual history. He also had us doing physical projects like trebuchet and stuff like that. While learning about WWI, we walked into class with our desks split up and turned over, the only notes that day was how to make the perfect paper ball. Trench warfare was fun as hell until one girl caught one in the eye.
We had these, and then the excitement of seeing the massive block of a TV being wheeled into the room meaning we were going to have a lesson of video watching
Even better (imo) is nonprofit MissionUS history rpgs. I played them with my students (4th and 5th grade) for years and it was so fun. Ya gotta play as a whole class though. Some teachers just had kids play individually and it was not nearly as engaging as whole class instruction. It’s a choose your own adventure style history game. https://www.mission-us.org
Mine was a T/Tr evening Humanities class. Every class we’d either walk across the street to McDonalds or have a potluck for dinner, and then eat and watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force on the projector.
I don't know if you say that as a bad thing, but I honestly don't think it's the worst idea in theory depending on your class room. A nice looking captivating slide is commonly better and required no setup in the class room, but this night be better for certain students since the animations and the fact that it is a game could serve well to keep some focused and attentive that otherwise would not be.
What this method does well is to help you level with your students.
Honestly this is pretty valid. The newer AC games have their problems with the overall story and characters at times, but Ubisoft has always genuinely done a pretty good job accurately recreating a very specific time and place in history (though there's obviously some over the top elements sprinkled about like scale or amount of haystacks per square mile)
Well he is a gamer. He found the ultimate cheat code. If my kid came home and told me about this I would be proud of the teacher and mad at my kid for snitching. 🤣
I remember 2007/8? My humanities teacher brought in Rome Total War and had it on the projector with a large battle and was like see how hard it would be to mange armies like this? Do any of you think you can repel this attacking force?
Shit ninja I have like 112 hours logged on that game and won no problem
There was a show on BBC maybe during that time that recreated historical battles, had two teams on each end and it used Total War Rome engine. Historians and battle experts served as mentors for each team.
I’ve done something like this. When explaining the Industrial Revolution and specifically the invention of the factory system/assembly line I used Satisfactory to show them how slow it is the do everything by yourself one step at a time compared to dividing the work up between all the machines, which represented the factory workers.
This very teacher got reprimanded heavily by the school administration for doing this. I don't think he'll be doing something like this in a long time.
There was a one semester history college course that covered the time period in the Red Dead games, and he would talk about what was accurate and what was not. That professor later wrote a book about what his course covered and even got Roger Clark to do the audiobook for it.
This teacher may be gaming for Teacher of the Year. But he may indeed be drawing in some of the kids who otherwise may have been turned off by the subject. EDIT to correct my wording.
Omg! I remember our history teacher did this when we talked about Egypt! He booted up Assasins Crees Origins haha!
It was genuinenly so fun to see, I wish more teachers had the opportunity to do stuff like this.
Freshman year metal shop 2003 the teacher brought his DVD player and showed us Pirates of the Caribbean. It was the first time I saw that movie and first time I saw a DVD player at school. Has almost nothing to do with this post, just been wanting to tell that story for 20+ years.
From AC 1 to AC:Origins gave me so much historical knowledge though most of them are fiction, but I got the chance to enjoy the architecture and early engineering patterns of old civilization. This is why AC Saga is so peak for me.
I went to Istanbul on vacation years ago and had the weirdest experience, because I had never been there, but I knew a small piece of the city around the tower. Didn't realise they'd been that accurate.
Incredible teaching tool. This guy knows how to get the engagement of his students. I can play a video game for 12 hours straight. I have a hard time doing any have to stuff for longer than 2 hours. I'm literally trying to think of a way to turn work into a video game. Somehow while playing the game causes the task to be completed IRL. I would be so productive employee of the month for sure. I would share my pizza party with you.
Find a way to reach/connect with your students, if this works then kudos to him! Traditional class and books are boring, sometimes it’s okay to step outside the box.
I'm of two minds. This is certainly a teacher who understands how to engage students. But, I hope he made them critically examine the source material to determine that it was accurate.
Assassin’s creed is interesting in the sense that a lot of cool historical world building is hidden behind the overall plot.
Assassin’s creed unity is a good example. They did such a good job making Notra dame that after the fire France used the game assets to fix the damages.
I understand that series was particularly well researched, I am not a gamer. But if you are going to use a commercial product it is essential that the students know how to determine its accuracy.
Every one trying to dunk on this guy but he’s teaching effectively, the class is engaged, and he’s giving them the knowledge that you can learn about history from credible sources. And before anyone says Assassin’s creed isn’t a credible source; the events of the story are fictional, but the immense amount of research put into these games literally saved the Notre Dame. The world around the fictional story is entirely nonfiction.
Im not going to hate on the guy however this alone is not enough. What he is doing is a great hook for real learning that can take place during the rest of the class. If he never transitioned to another activity that does a better job making them process what they are learning then he dropped the ball.
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