Civ2 in Schools?

[Shadowstrike]

I jsut realized that Civ 2 would be a neat way to teach history. That is, instead of having to learn "by the book" they give you a good scenario in the appropriate era, ask you to play it, then do the books as needed. And thoughts?

By the way, I'd wish they'd use this system in schools now, and I can forget about history homework...

[SandMonkey]

try and get it past a school board....

[jcarkey]

That would be pretty cool. I agree with SandMonkey about school boards.

It is sort of funny that you brought that up. School was the place that I first palyed Civ.
I guess I know who my favorite teacher is

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[SandMonkey]

a teacher got you hooked on civ? or just because you got to play in that class??

[jcarkey]

Because I played it in class. But I thank the teacher for getting the program.

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[BuilderR]

Cool idea...

[Shadowstrike]

Bumping this up so people can see it.

[MacUser]

I've thought that this was a great way to teach historical concepts to kids since I first got the game! Thanks to Civ, my oldest son (now 10) and I have had lots of conversations about how events and discoveries played out in the real world. I think that a game would take too long in a classroom setting, however the poster/tech tree could be useful.

There is a video series called the "Ascent of Man" by Jacob Bernowski (I likely misspelled his name) that discusses how one discovery led to another and how history was impacted. The tapes should be available in most great public libraries.

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[finbar]

I can hear it now.

Kid: "How come there are chariots in the 17th Century, sir?"

Teacher: "You're on detention, boy."



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[Seeker]

Essays written on 'causes of the Russian Revolution':

'obviously, Lenin hoped to use the low corruption and ability to control many cities of Communism to counteract the Republic (of Kerensky) with its poor military and greater unhappiness...'

Essays on why Rhodes should've been the most powerful Greek poleis (they had the Collossus, and Collossus vs Oracle? pffft..)

[DarkCloud]

Civ 2 should definitely be in schools. How much it should be used however, varies.

The students can learn various things:

#1 How hard it is to manage an empire
#2 The names of historical leaders
#3 Historical Civilizations and where they started.
#4 Real wonders of the world
#5 What some things do (city improvements)
#6 Strategy like chess (unit wars)
#7 They can make book reports on the 100 years war or other wars such as putting historical units facing off each other (High School History and art if they design the units)
#8 They can make book reports (Lord of the Flies) with sound, unit, and terrain drawings)

Those are just some ideas of many

[Shadowstrike]

How about having scenario making instead of projects? You can just see it in this:

Parent: Get off the computer, you've been playing for 11 hours.

Kid: But it's a school project...

Parent: Nonsense, why would they make you try to draw a picture of Napoleon that small for a project?

Hehehe...

[Empress]

Actually I had a dream about civ in schools a couple weeks ago. I dreamed I was back to teaching and I was in this huge classroom with the walls lined with books and in walking around the room I noticed a section of civ and alpha centauri books!
I opened a civ book and it was a story based on a game played by the author.

[MacUser]

Fin - It would be more useful here in the "Colonies" as we don't have surly youth!

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[tonic]

I'd like to see more emphasis on the 'perfectionist' approach to encourage the values espoused by a true civilization.

While the initial concepts would be a useful introduction to history, I think the level of AI performance (broached in the Civ3 forum) would need to be improved before some realism can be imparted. Besides the 17th C chariot, the bright kids will no doubt be able to soon produce 18th C armor not to mention finding the Cure for Cancer in 1600 AD.