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How student-designed video games made me rethink how I teach history

  • Written by Adam Clulow, Associate Professor of History, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
How student-designed video games made me rethink how I teach history'Ako: A Tale of Loyalty' takes players inside a young samurai's world in 18th-century Japan.Epoch: History Games Initiative/University of Texas at Austin, CC BY-NC-ND

Imagine you’re a young samurai in Japan in 1701. You have to make a difficult choice between an impoverished life in exile, or the prospect of almost certain death while trying...

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