• s@piefed.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    History was my worst subject, yet I’m able to remember way more details than needed about lore-rich fictional universes. I think it’s because fictional stories tend to have “good guy” protagonists that the historical narrative can follow, but real world history definitely should not be taught that way.

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      I had a history teacher break our class up into groups each doing a project on a separate faction of World War 1.

      We each had to argue why our group did NOT cause the war, and as a class try and determine who we thought caused it.

      It was such a clever way of presenting such a critical and complex period of time to a bunch of otherwise disengaged public school kids. The teacher essentially made it a seminar, which was pretty big gamble because, well, teenagers. The lack of dictated narrative was influential as all hell.