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Hi-tech escape from Tower of London | Reuters.com

This is a very cool, interactive, technology-enabled teaching method. Visitors to the Tower of London can participate in a game—powered by GPS, a Windows CE hand-held system, audio files, and real interactions with guards—to help famous prisoners from the Tower’s past escape. Along the way, you learn a lot about history and the Tower.

This is a really exciting step up from an audio tour, in my opinion. Instead of listening to someone talk about whatever you’re looking at, it puts you in the story, creating a sense of drama and engagement not frequently seen at museums and historical sites.

The possibilities this kind of blended learning presents are almost endless for academia, business, and obviously tourism. If you could pull the components together cheaply enough, it would even be a fun way just to put together a game for the sake of a game this way. It would be like literally walking into a Myst-like scenario. Really good stuff.

(Thanks, George, for the heads-up on this one. That’s one more reason to go to London.)

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