Talk:Ancient board games/Course description
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| Feedback | 0 | 17:46, 23 April 2015 |
| A really cool course concept | 0 | 16:40, 22 April 2015 |
| History and games | 3 | 04:20, 21 April 2015 |
Hi Colin,
This course sounds like so much fun and good learning besides. I hope you share further your further development. I have several young relatives who could benefit from the learning as well as the fun. I might even get to participate with them.
Your notes on Monopoly and Snakes and Ladders are interesting and feel true from my own experience of playing those games. Even as a child, I felt they had a dark side. Chinese Checkers was another story. That was my personal favourite game.
Cheers, Donna
Exciting. I love history. And, in terms of games, years ago I decided not to go that way because I saw that for me it was addictive. What about designing a continuation of this course comparing these historical games with modern games, such as Monopoly? It could be interesting to see how the vision of games change since the Enlightenment, through the modern worldview. Monopoly, for example, is a direct emergence of modern economic ideas and capitalism. A discussion (collective thinking) on old and new games could give interesting insights for everybody. #DS4OER
Thanks for comments. It seems that some board games from the 19th century onwards seemed to have a deeper purpose outside of just having fun. I'm sure that I've read Monopoly originally was intended to have an anti-capitalist message and Snakes and Ladders had a moral message about how people lived their lives.
Colin, I think the course sounds fun and educational. Do your learners need to be able to use specific software to contribute to the course, or just have an active internet connection?
Just an active internet connection. I will make that more explicit.
