“Fair Play”: A Videogame Designed to Address Implicit Race Bias Through Active Perspective Taking. 3 Digital Tools for Helping Students Gain Perspective on Immigration. By Erin Wilkey Oh, Common Sense Education As the debate over U.S. immigration policy continues to divide voters across the country, more and more online resources are popping up to help us understand this complex, emotionally charged issue. For young people without a personal connection to an immigration story, these websites, games, multimedia news pieces, and more, can help put a human face on an abstract debate.
For students with first-hand knowledge of the immigrant experience, they can find validation of their stories and/or those of their friends and family. The three tools below give teachers a few ways to approach the topic of immigration in the classroom. While none of these resources offers a complete picture of the situation on its own, they can help students step back for a big-picture, historical perspective on U.S. immigration, as well as zoom in for the details of the lived experience.
American Panorama NPR: Borderland Papers, Please. Papers, Please Educator Review | Common Sense Education. How Can Teachers Use It? It'll fit into a unit on immigration and/or citizenship in history, social studies, or government classes. Since there's no tutorial, some portion of the class should be devoted to how the game works and how to play it. Students could play at home or in a computer lab, or sign up for in-class slots of play time. After each session, have students reflect on their experience in a journal.
Create dedicated prompts for the journals, and since students will likely be interested in one anothers' unique experiences, consider using a blogging platform. Suggested prompts: How did the game make you feel when you had to make a hard decision? Read MoreRead Less What's It Like? Papers, Please is a simulation video game that puts students in the role of an immigration officer for the fictional communist nation of Arstotska. Is It Good For Learning? The Radix Endeavor. Fairplay. Home | Quandary. Board Games Rankings/Reviews. Video Game Reviews/Rankings. Welcome to Steam. GLS Studios - Games. Game-based science curriculum units for educators and students. Play - ARIS - Mobile Learning Experiences. Minecraft.net - Home.
Sid Meier's Civilization | Official Civ Site | 2K. Sid Meier's Power Rankings: Every Sid Meier's Game Ranked :: Games :: Lists :: Paste. Last week 2K released Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth, a spiritual successor to Alpha Centauri that takes the already legendary Civilization 5 template and sticks it in space.
If you’ve been following Meier over his decades of great work, you already know Beyond Earth will be prudent, colorful and painstakingly tuned. It will welcome you with open arms, and give you enough content to keep your teeth sinking for the rest of your life. That is, after all, what his games do. Sid Meier is an institution at this point. He’s perhaps the only designer who genuinely deserves to put his name on the box (sorry American McGee!) His run at Firaxis is indisputably one of the best, if not THE best careers anyone has ever put together in gaming. With that, we present to you the official Paste power-rankings of the games that bear Sid Meier’s name in the title. 7.
Still, if you’re a train guy and you somehow haven’t picked up Railroads, well, I’m not sure you actually exist. 6. 5. Pirates! 4.
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It also contains a “getting started” tutorial, reference charts, a glossary, and interdisciplinary connections. Teacher Edition (Print & Digital) This 144-page, two-color manual includes facsimile Student Edition pages, wrap-around teacher notes, lesson plans, extentions, worksheets, and resources. Videos 60 minutes of videos introduce teachers and students to some of the world’s top explorers and key science concepts.
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