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Teaching: still not widespread, the use of video games allows you to “break the routine”

2024-02-07T05:52:29.140Z

Highlights: Teaching: still not widespread, the use of video games allows you to “break the routine”. How are video games used in the classroom? Romain Vincent, professor of history in a college in Seine-et-Marne and doctoral student at Sorbonne-Paris Nord University. “Assassin's Creed” or “Call of Duty” in history to work on students' critical thinking and comparing historical documents to fiction. ‘Minecraft’ in technology to construct buildings with available resources.


How are video games used in the classroom? Romain Vincent, professor of history in a college in Seine-et-Marne and doctoral student at


“Assassin's Creed” or “Call of Duty” in history to work on students' critical thinking and comparing historical documents to fiction, “Minecraft” in technology to construct buildings with available resources, “Papers Please” in philosophy to evoke ethics and morality… These video games, which are aimed at the general public, have made their entry into secondary education, middle and high schools.

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A tiptoe introduction, however, as Romain Vincent notes.

This history professor in a college in Seine-et-Marne is a doctoral researcher at the Sorbonne-Paris Nord University in Seine-Saint-Denis, where he is conducting a thesis entitled “From play to education: what teachers do at video game ".

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