{"id":12658,"date":"2013-05-09T09:16:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=12658"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:28:23","slug":"best-history-class-ever-award-winning-prof-hates-essays-loves-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2013\/best-history-class-ever-award-winning-prof-hates-essays-loves-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Best history class ever? Award-winning prof hates essays, loves video games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Best history class ever? Award-winning prof hates essays, loves video games\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By: Daniel Reid<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shawn Graham isn\u2019t your ordinary history professor. Not by a long shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Essays? He hates them. Video games? Part of his curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI often joke with my students that I don\u2019t want to read any more essays,\u201d says Graham, who specializes in game-based learning approaches. \u201cI want them making different things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This unique teaching approach is part of the reason why Graham just won the Desire2Learn Innovation Award for Teaching and Learning on April 23. The award, sponsored by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and Desire2Learn, recognizes innovative teaching and learning approaches in post-secondary education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carletonnow.carleton.ca\/may-2013\/best-history-class-ever-award-winning-prof-hates-essays-loves-video-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a> in the May issue of Carleton Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Daniel Reid Shawn Graham isn\u2019t your ordinary history professor. Not by a long shot. Essays? He hates them. Video games? Part of his curriculum. \u201cI often joke with my students that I don\u2019t want to read any more essays,\u201d says Graham, who specializes in game-based learning approaches. \u201cI want them making different things.\u201d This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40852,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12658\/revisions\/40852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}