Teacher praised for playing ‘Assassin’s Creed’ game in class — as history lesson: ‘How teaching should be done’
NY Post
Talk about an A for effort.
A middle school teacher is being praised online for using a widely popular historical-fiction video game to teach ancient Greek history in an engaging and immersive way.
Educator and TikTok sensation Mr. Mahathey, who has shared many tween-friendly videos on his feed, posted a clip of himself playing “Assassin’s Creed: Oddessey” in front of his students.
The purpose was to break down the battle of Thermopylae, a key conflict of the Grecco-Persian War in 480 BC which was made re-famous by Gerard Butler, a.k.a. King Leonidas, and his band of bloodthirsty Spartans in the film “300.”
Showing a bird’s eye view of the battlefield in his video seen more than 2 million times, Mr. Mahathey explained where the Greek forces were stationed and how they planned to stifle King Xerxes’ massive Persian army.
The Greek leader planned to engage in fighting at a rugged and narrow pass of sulfur springs known as “hot gates” to cut off their overwhelming numbers.