{"id":18585,"date":"2018-10-31T10:07:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T14:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=18585"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:51:09","slug":"pamela-walker-discusses-reacting-to-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2018\/pamela-walker-discusses-reacting-to-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Pamela Walker Discusses “Reacting to the Past”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The following excerpts were taken from the article “Learning Through Experience<\/a>” by Jane van den Dries who profiled a recent symposium held on campus by Teaching and Learning Services and the Office of the Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (Academic). Over 200 participants attended, including History Professor Pamela Walker<\/a>, who gave details on how she incorporates experiential learning into her first year seminar, FYSM 1405A: The Long Civil Rights Movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Game-Based Learning Draws in Students<\/h3>\n

Pamela Walker, a professor in the Department of History<\/a>, and Martha Attridge Bufton, an interdisciplinary studies librarian in the MacOdrum Library<\/a>, teamed up in one of the symposium\u2019s final sessions to present a unique simulation they manage in a first-year history seminar.<\/p>\n

Walker leads game-based learning in \u201cThe Long Civil Rights Movement\u201d course by facilitating a Reacting to the Past<\/a> game throughout the semester with research support from Attridge Bufton.<\/p>\n

The Reacting to the Past consortium has developed an intellectually rigorous simulation that gives students an opportunity to assume the role of a historical figure. Students begin with detailed complex readings and fully research their character over several weeks before they act and react in character through class discussions, presentations and papers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis type of learning gives students a stake in the game\u2019s outcome because they want to win, so suddenly what suffrage women have to say about Marxist theory becomes meaningful and important,\u201d said Walker.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn any career students are likely to enter, being able to understand text and speak and write persuasively are important skills, but if I say it that way to students, it does not have the same influence as when I say: \u2018In order to win this game, you need to do all these things well and I can help you on your way,\u2019 because it suddenly becomes more exciting and engages them emotionally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walker says she has found that incorporating game-based learning has strengthened her course to help students more fully grasp the impact of history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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