Big Brother Is… Teaching You?

Totalitarianism simulation beats lecture.

Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash

Students file into a room that looks like a classroom from the outside, except for handmade posters on the door and walls surrounding it praising, and condemning the ‘dictator’ who runs the class that week. It’s 10:45 am. Mr. Greer, a history teacher is teaching a unit on totalitarianism in an unconventional way. He has got his 7th grade…