Aristotle, Comenius, Dewey, Plato and Pokémon GO : Walking with Location-based Games in the Footsteps of Didactic Giants

• The rapid development of digital technologies has the potential to revitalisecontemporary education. Location-based games built on satellite-basednavigation system technologies in smartphones is a new technology that trulyopens up new forms to orchestrate didactic ideas that can unlock the classroomconstraint in traditional education. This study aims to describe and discuss theorchestration of concepts from the history of didactics in location-based gamessettings. Building on Aristotle, Comenius, Dewey and Plato, it combines the ancientidea of learning by walking with the ideas of flipped classrooms, gamebasedlearning, and learning by interplay with the surrounding society.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Didaktik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Didactics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Aristotle

Comenius

Dewey

Didactic

Game-based Learning

Location- Based Games

Plato

Pokémon GO

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