Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Introduction

At the University of Calgary, the Graduate Division of Educational Research’s Knowledge Design Lab (KDL) is engaged in developing an extraordinary Learning Team Adventure Game (LTAG) model. This unique concept maintains that learning can take place while moving in an physical interactive maze. The model will now be implemented in Calgary Military Museum run by the Calgary Military Museum society for the first time. A discovery room, which is in its last stage of construction at the Museum, is designed to bring the real maze experience. Gordon Fairhead, chairman of the museum's education committee, says that as the organization doubles in size - it is being renamed the Calgary Military Museums as it brings together the Naval Museum and an Air Forces Gallery - it needs to use the latest technology to engage young minds. Schools from in and around Calgary visit the museum. The museum encourages school teachers to visit along with their students and view the artifacts and archived material related to military history of Canada. In a view of exploring the promises of technology in delivering the educational programs the Museum has now collaborated with the University of Calgary to develop materials that will engage the visitor and help them carry a remarkable experience of the visit. The content of the maze currently focuses on the consequences of Second World War and intend to educate the visitor with the destructions caused by the war.

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