{"id":20083,"date":"2020-05-28T11:31:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=20083"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:50:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:50:20","slug":"pamela-walker-explains-to-university-affairs-how-she-incorporates-games-into-her-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2020\/pamela-walker-explains-to-university-affairs-how-she-incorporates-games-into-her-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pamela Walker Explains to University Affairs How She Incorporates Games into her Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Professor Pamela Walker<\/a>, talks to Matthew Guida of University Affairs, about how she has students gain a deeper understanding of history through role playing games. A short excerpt is included below, with the full article, “Role-playing games are breathing new life into the history classroom<\/a>“, is available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After noticing a decline in interest and engagement among her students in previous years, Pamela Walker, a history professor at Carleton University, has had major success with a different kind of classroom resource: role-playing games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reacting to the Past<\/a> (RTTP) is a series of games that combines role-playing and educational pedagogy. Developed during the 1990s by Mark C. Carnes, a history professor at Barnard College in New York, RTTP games are set during historical events with students assigned the roles of historical figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students must conduct extensive research on their characters before playing out the game\u2019s scenario. They are graded<\/a> based on a rubric that considers the intellectual content of the game, which requires writing papers that engage with relevant historical texts and presenting speeches from their character\u2019s perspective that demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the historical context and issues. These games aim to teach invaluable skills such as historical research, public speaking, debating and conflict resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy students were immediately, entirely engaged in the course. I had virtually perfect attendance,\u201d says Dr. Walker. \u201cThey were coming to all the classes; they were doing the readings and they understood conceptually what we were trying to achieve.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Pamela Walker, talks to Matthew Guida of University Affairs, about how she has students gain a deeper understanding of history through role playing games. A short excerpt is included below, with the full article, “Role-playing games are breathing new life into the history classroom“, is available online. After noticing a decline in interest and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"idea-inspiration"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20084,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083\/revisions\/20084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}