Two 14 and 15 year old gamers, Cumeco students, in Santa Cruz, recreated the Pacific War in the popular Minecraft video game.
It is a private educated educational institution that has been working since 2018 with schoolchildren and collegiate; Currently, his students reach twenty.
Adrián Guevara Roca, aka Knowdi (14 years old), and Santiago Zapata Álvarez, Mr. Ardilla (15), faced the project that develops technological, research with internet and team organization, linking the history of war between Bolivia and Chile; the animals and plants of Antofagasta and Calama; Mythology; Naval construction; the geography of the coast and the Atacama desert; The mathematics applied to measurement and scales, as well as the architecture of the time.
“When building block by block the Pacific War you realize how big and complex it was,” said Knowdi, according to a press release.
For Mr. Ardilla, this process “was much better than reading a book or seeing a documentary.”
Immersive learning
Mr. Ardilla reflected that “when making this map you understand that the leaves that print in your school book about the war are few in the face of the enormous information available on the Internet.”
“Any questions we had solved with the Internet, that’s what Cumeco is about. For example: we found the original planes of the war ships to build them in Minecraft. Also with Googlemap Chile.
As CEMECO clarified to South Correo, the map is a Winrar file that can be downloaded for free from its website, now in remodeling. It will be available next week.
What is Cumeco?
Cumeco develops studies on educational methods; It provides courses for educators and students in study techniques, emotional management and technologies appropriation.
