Video Games: Play and Pedagogy
In this panel event bridging video games and education, our guest speakers will the role of video games in shaping our world and human development, and the gamification of education.
About Video Games: Play and Pedagogy
Video games have emerged as a powerful educational tool, one of the most significant ways in which the public engages with the past. Moreover, games and immersive digital experiences offer historians of visual culture a way to shape more inclusive and authentic public perceptions of the past by making academic research widely accessible to audiences outside the academy.
In this panel event bridging video games and education, our guest speakers neuroscientist and physicist Kelly Clancy, Islamic art historian Glaire Anderson (Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections, University of Edinburgh), Maxime Durand (Ubisoft/Assassin’s Creed Discovery Tour), and Chris van der Kuyl (Minecraft), will discuss topics such as the role of video games in shaping our world and human development, and the gamification of education – including how video games are making education and knowledge widely accessible, and informing public perceptions of the past.
This event is part of the Edinburgh Futures Institute's free public events series Learning Curves, taking place from October-December 2024
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