Historia

07/22/2015

New News Regarding The Release of Historia

Over the past many months, The Historia team has relied on many of you to help us identify what will be needed to make Historia work seamlessly in most configurations of public, private, charter, and home school classrooms — a finely-tuned task to complete.

The feedback our team has received is very clear — that providing a great game-based framework to motivate the research is simply not enough, and that awesome curriculum content and the ability to create self-contained curriculum modules from the larger game play experience are vital features of a final product.

Given this valuable input, our plan is to take a little more time to get it right — and either source a great content partner, or generate the content ourselves — both of which will talk time. So, unfortunately, Historia won't be available in 2015, but we will update you as we continue to make progress on the project.

For those of you who may still be looking to introduce game-based units in your classrooms this fall, we invite you to learn more about some of our other learning games - like Right or Wrong!, The Easy Essay Game, ProWordNess - Social Studies Edition and ProWordNess - English Language Edition - in the newly-launched Histrionix Store on the Teachers Pay Teachers site.

There you will find detailed descriptions of these classroom-tested, curriculum-aligned, game-based resources produced by Histrionix Learning Company. And if you like what you see - please help spread the word.

That said - we thank you for your continued support of our work. It means more to us than you may know.

Game(s) on!

Rick & Jason

05/20/2014

Jason Darnell, social studies teacher and founder of Histrionix Learning Company, talks about how his game HISTORIA motivates students to research, analyze a...

05/20/2014

Last week, Histrionix Learning Company and E-Line Media visited the Incubator School in Los Angeles to meet some of the pioneering students who are piloting Historia in their classroom. The Incubator School is an entrepreneurship themed public school in LAUSD. The curriculum is all about inquiry and problem solving in an environment where students are in charge of their own learning. The energy at the Incubator School feels like being in a startup...students are motivated and approach their work with efficiency and intention. Their insight into product development is some of the most useful we have received during the Beta...these students know their stuff. What a great way to spend the day!

03/04/2014

Education Expo SponsorsBy Sean Brown | February 26, 2014 SXSWedu would like to thank the Presenting and Supporting Sponsors of the 2014 Education Expo for their help in making this event possible.Read more about Education Expo Sponsors

02/11/2014

"Historia unfolds like an interactive graphic novel in which students shape their people's history by making timely decisions and solving historically accurate problems called Dilemmas -- again, all as a team"

Great article in Edutopia by Historia co-creator Rick Brennan

History is the greatest story ever told. However, what makes history so compelling a story too often gets lost in translation in the classroom. As a result, students start tuning out social studies -

11/20/2013

Learn History by Leading History.

11/08/2013

Will you be at at NCSS 2013 in St. Louis?

Then join us at the Learning Games Lab at NCSS 2013 in Room 200 of the Cervantes Convention Center.

Here you'll find an engaging series of presentations, play sessions and workshops focused on harnessing the power of game-based learning to make social studies more relevant, engaging and empowering for students. Learn more and sign up today at playhistoria.com/play

JOIN THE LEARNING GAMES LAB AT THE 93RD NCSS ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN ST. LOUIS As our rapidly changing world makes social studies education even more critical to our future, teachers are harnessing the power of game-based learning to help youth th [...]

11/04/2013

Confession: Historia creator, Rick Brennan was a former history hater!

Check out Rick's talk at TEDxHouston. See how he and Jason Darnell set out to transform social studies education from tests and taking notes until your hand hurts into a chance for students to learn history through first hand experience.

Last month, HISTORIA creator, Rick Brennan, took the stage at TEDxHouston to make a startling confession: "I am a former history hater," Brennan told the packed auditorium at Rice University. Brennan began school with a deep interest in story [...]

09/04/2013

"After 7 years of work, we thought we had lightening in a bottle: something that could help kids around the country"

WATCH Historia creator Rick Darnell at The Atlantic Technology in Education Forum http://bit.ly/1efgf3m

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VOTE for Historia's sxswEDU panel on "Scaling Up Classroom Grown Games" with E-Line Media Histrionix Learning Company and Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc.--> http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/19870

This summer, social studies teacher and Historia creator Rick Brennan was asked to be a keynote speaker at The Atlantic's 2013 Technologies in Education Forum, which was held at The Newseum in Washington D.C. The Atlantic's Technologies in Edu [...]

08/29/2013

"Every history class should have games."

WATCH Historia creator Jason Darnell at TEDxHISD http://bit.ly/18kDrar

and

VOTE for Historia's sxswEDU panel on "Scaling Up Classroom Grown Games" with E-Line Media and Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. --> http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/19870

Historia co-creator Jason Darnell took the stage at TEDx HISD to talk about how games are transforming social studies education by offering students the opportunity to navigate the core curriculum with a mission in mind. In Historia, students t [...]

08/26/2013

This summer, Historia creators E-Line Media and Histrionix Learning Company teamed up with Neighborhood Centers Inc to help students build critical thinking and STEM skills through game design. Watch this video to check out some of the student created games!

While many of their friends were at home playing video games, some Houston students spent their summer learning how to make video games of their own. This summer, Neighborhood Centers Incorporated partnered with E-Line Media and Histrionix Lea [...]

08/20/2013

Historia has a panel in the running for this year's sxswEDU festival! Help Historia get on the stage in Austin by voting for our panel...just follow this link!

Scaling Up Classroom Grown GamesIt’s no surprise that classroom teachers design some of the most innovative and relevant games for learning. With deep subject area expertise, knowledge of learning context and direct access to test subjects, teachers can make the kind of games that not only engage an...