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Last Friday, March 14, 2025, a new conference was held in Madrid as part of the international project Playing with the Past. The event took place at the Faculty of Psychology of the Cantoblanco campus of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and brought together specialists from various disciplines and backgrounds to reflect on the use … Read more
From November 5-8, 2024, a major international meeting took place in Nicosia (Cyprus) as part of two complementary events: the second general conference of the European Making Histories project and the second conference of the Playing with the Past series. Both were held in the “Home for Cooperation” space thanks to the collaboration of the … Read more
On March 13, 2024, the first colloquium of the Playing with the Past project was held in Madrid, within the Week of Conferences of the Faculty of Psychology of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. This inaugural meeting was attended by Laura Arias and Alejandro Egea, professors at the University of Murcia with a solid background … Read more
With the collaboration of the teacher Irene Roncero Ponce from Colegio Santa Rita, an experiment on the Quizstory program has been carried out, which is explained below. Irene is a teacher of Music, Education in Civic and Ethical Values and Philosophy in ESO, and collaborator of Vanesa Galán Simón (see the other entry about Colegio … Read more
During the month of February 2025, students in the 3rd year of ESO at IES Santa Rita, in Carabanchel, participated in a pioneering study that explored the educational potential of video games in the history classroom. Specifically, the aim was to investigate how a strategy game like Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization could influence their … Read more
The PlayingPast project aims to review the weight of video games in culture and, more specifically, in the experiences that recreate historical knowledge in museums. Hand in hand with technology, gamification has been fighting a long battle to break the barrier of traditional mentalities and to introduce interactive resources in the galleries of history museums. … Read more
The Playingpast project aims to study the influence of historical video games in the construction of historical thinking and, in short, in the learning of History, within the framework of the general reflection between Technology, Education and Culture, both in the formal classroom and in informal learning, such as the world of museums. Four main … Read more