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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 7d

The latest Video Game History Hour podcast talks to Dr. Stephanie Harkin, lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, about her research on video games in girls’ lifestyle magazines like Girl Gamer & Total Girl: gamehistory.org/episode-141-...

Episode 141: Hidden Advertising of Feminine Games | Video Game History Foundation

Phil Salvador interviews Dr. Stephanie Harkin, lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) School of Design Games Program in Australia, about her research on femininity in gaming, p...

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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 14h

📢 Ayar – from @flopiano.bsky.social, @mandelafg.bsky.social & @ianotoole.bsky.social – is out 1 week today: https://bit.ly/4oFvT0y

🌽 Compete for area majority farming maize
⚱️ Collect sets crafting pottery
🧵 Build your pattern weaving carpets
🛶 Traverse the lake board learning reed bundling

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 14h

Aw yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go you!

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 14h

It's a great show -- afaik one-of-a-kind, but even if there were a pack, GSSB would top them all!

cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 15h

truly the weirdest part of having made this show for X years is that there’s something like 10 people who have started / completed an advanced degree due in part to the show’s influence, which we partially started because of how fed up we were with academia

Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 22h

Uh, something happened. Defence in December.

Also, Game Studies Study Buddies to Dissertation pipeline is real, thanks @ckunzelman.bsky.social & @ztul.bsky.social

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 15h

truly the weirdest part of having made this show for X years is that there’s something like 10 people who have started / completed an advanced degree due in part to the show’s influence, which we partially started because of how fed up we were with academia

Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 22h

Uh, something happened. Defence in December.

Also, Game Studies Study Buddies to Dissertation pipeline is real, thanks @ckunzelman.bsky.social & @ztul.bsky.social

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 14h

My incredibly chonky book has been out in the world for two weeks!

Retell The Odyssey by making Odysseus’ choices for him. Or, don’t, and go home to Penelope/get cosy with Phaeacians/skive off to Egypt with Menelaus/die horribly in a variety of ways👌

laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk/publications...

YOU ARE ODYSSEUS

OUT NOW! BUY PAPERBACK DIRECT (UK/US) Available in paperback and ebook. Go to links to order, by country Tell me, O Reader, of that resourceful man… Read and become Odysseus, the many-minded man, t…

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 14h

AWESOME!!!!!! I've been pitching to lit teachers that their students could be doing this with lit for awhile. How terrific to have what I am sure is an amazing-quality example to show the way.
Congratulations!

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15h

More than eight months after President Trump cut U.S. foreign assistance to Africa, health officials are reporting a rise in deadly infections brought on by a shortage of medical supplies, including a new Ebola outbreak in the Congo that has already killed several dozen people.

U.S. aid cuts are being felt across Africa. Here’s where.

How the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. aid has affected disease preparedness and response in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 19h

This is great!

Jason Matthews @jasondcmatthews.bsky.social · 1d

Someone needs to check the weather in hell. Has it frozen over??? Here is an actually uplifting story about wargaming/wargamers.

Spalding Wargames Club putting mental health on the front line

Members of a wargaming club say the support they have been getting from the sessions are 'crucial'.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 1d

Hey I'd like to see that too,Thomas!

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 2d

Started Researched Choice-Based History project with my ninth-grade Ancient World students, now in its 8th year (10th grade Honors Modern World started in Sept). Updating the rubrics as usual & writing out my whole method in 3 chapters of next year's Designing Historical Games for Classrooms book.

Student-Designed Histories

CCDS History Students Interactive Histories For the years up to 2023 these interactive histories were mostly (except for the 2019 entry) designed by my ninth-graders in Ancient World History at Cin…

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating! What do you think about Short, who as edited and quoted in the article seems to suggest, drawing from others, that novels were a bad idea historically and, I'm inferring, the crafted goal oriented player agent is going to be / should be phased out by the procgen sim? Just curious.

Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 2d

Started Researched Choice-Based History project with my ninth-grade Ancient World students, now in its 8th year (10th grade Honors Modern World started in Sept). Updating the rubrics as usual & writing out my whole method in 3 chapters of next year's Designing Historical Games for Classrooms book.

Student-Designed Histories

CCDS History Students Interactive Histories For the years up to 2023 these interactive histories were mostly (except for the 2019 entry) designed by my ninth-graders in Ancient World History at Cin…

gamingthepast.net

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 2d

Any thoughts on this, friends?

Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 4d

Hi historical game interested folks!
Saw abstract for research article -- it suggested affective engagement w/ historical content increased using particular games vs a text but knowledge test scores better w/ text.
Okay let's shift from article i've-not-read to that principle 1/ 🧵
🗃 #AncientBluesky

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 2d

www.cnn.com/world/africa...

Video game lets you return African artifacts from Western museums | CNN

In “Relooted,” players plan a heist to reclaim real-life African artifacts held in Western institutions.

www.cnn.com

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 3d

PS If you've never heard of GTP (or thought it too expensive -- I sympathize) it's on sale on Amazon right now

www.amazon.com/Gaming-Past-... /9

Gaming the Past

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 3d

Still on sale!

Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 11d

Hey Gaming the Past Second Edition is on a pretty good sale on Amazon. 35ish instead of 51ish

Gaming the Past

Gaming the Past [McCall, Jeremiah] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Gaming the Past

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 3d

Okay I completed this thread from yesterday for interested folk

Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 4d

Hi historical game interested folks!
Saw abstract for research article -- it suggested affective engagement w/ historical content increased using particular games vs a text but knowledge test scores better w/ text.
Okay let's shift from article i've-not-read to that principle 1/ 🧵
🗃 #AncientBluesky

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 4d

Hi historical game interested folks!
Saw abstract for research article -- it suggested affective engagement w/ historical content increased using particular games vs a text but knowledge test scores better w/ text.
Okay let's shift from article i've-not-read to that principle 1/ 🧵
🗃 #AncientBluesky

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 3d

And then, a far better learning goal (in addition to the really useful but often fickle affective engagement) is to
- Analyze agency in systems
- Analyze systemic models (i.e. games) of the past
- Critique modern media and how media shape messages

But more importantly, what do YOU think?
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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 3d

I don't want my students to simply receive information uncritically from ANY source. So this goes back to my long term Gaming the Past point. Gameplay should be accompanied by teacher guidance both in purposeful play & meaningful analysis and critique. Teachers should mediate in a history class. 7/

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 3d

So not only do we KNOW video games aren't great for fact acquisition & retention, we KNOW that is not a particularly worthwhile goal for history teachers. Addition: idea that game should "teach" facts uncritically is part of same error: the idea that worthy education is abt pouring information in 6/

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 3d

(Continued 🧵) Sam Wineburg demonstrated APUSH kids often did better on factual tests than PhDs (not in US history) and STILL did not have basic historical skills of the PhDs. Factual retention & reproduction of facts as "knowledge" is NOT historical thinking. 5/
🗃️ #AncientBluesky

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 4d

1st being a historian and teaching historical thinking is not about fact-knowledge transfer. Go back to Sam Wineburgs early 1990s articles
(Whoops have to go grocery shopping, will work on this later) 4/

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 4d

This has been an objection to gameplay and analysis in history classes for decades (way back it was just critiquing social studies simulations but same critique). But there are SO MANY problems w/ focusing at all on "knowledge acquisition" if that means anything like "fact recall" on a test 3/

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