These days, it has become increasingly challenging for teachers to keep students focused on the classroom, as technology and smartphones (those damn TikTok videos) have taken up young people’s time. Because of this, educators are always looking for different ways to hold their attention for as long as possible.
In contrast, video games are one of the few forms of entertainment that can keep their fans obsessed with a single story that can last more than 40 hours, so why not use them? And that’s exactly what a middle school teacher did in Brazil!
History Lessons Through the Eyes of Jacob Frye
The idea came from Wesley Bernardo, who teaches history to several classes daily and recently took his own PlayStation 5 to a lesson about the Industrial Revolution.
In order to do this, he played Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, using the game’s setting to demonstrate what life was like for workers in 19th-century factories – what was recorded by a student, and the teacher shared it on his Instagram.
“They use coal as energy,” Bernardo explains in the video while controlling the protagonist, Jacob Frye, in the middle of the Hightower Coal. “They burn the coal, which generates the...
