History- Game Based Learning

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is growing in many aspects
of life. It changes many fundamental of life especially in communication. Better
communication is important to have correct information. In this new generation, ICT
technologies of internet and multimedia have revolutionized the field of education. The
lack of creativity in teaching caused the learning process boring and not interesting
especially in history subject where students need to memorize too much information
from the subject. With ICT technology of interactive multimedia such as videos, songs
or games, it will help students for immerse learning and make the learning process more
fun.
The objectives of this project are to identify the suitable game-based methods to be
adopted in history teaching learning where the working prototype of the game-based
learning application will developed and tested. The project focuses on the secondary school
students in form one in history. The game will be based on three modules in History of
Malaysian Syllabus for Secondary School (KBSM). The tools used in developing the game
are Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Flash. The functions involve in this tools is to make
the game interactive with clicking button and creating animations. The programming
language involve is Action Script. The incremental model are chose in this project where it
have five phase which are analysis, design, development, quality assurance and evaluation. From
the results interview the history educators, history is hard subject for students because majority
of students does not like to read of thousand words of information and the game based learning
is expected to be the additional tools in history teaching to make the learning more fun and
interesting.