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The Great War in the classroom.
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The article describes an on-line interactive simulation used to teach the origins of World War I. The potential pitfalls of using role-playing in the history classroom are discussed, as well as the reasons for its success.
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Many students are turned off by history because it seems to be nothing more than a litany of names, dates, facts, battles, and kings. They do not realize that above all else, history is about imagination. It is a particular kind of imagination--one that is grounded in the sources upon which it is based--but no less creative because of that. Even at the introductory level, history can be dynamic, ...
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