Simulating the Cold War: The Yalta Conference
Journal: OAH Magazine of History
Year: 2010

Many of our students would rather be anywhere else on earth than in our classrooms. With the aid of the latest technologies, they have developed skills that allow them to be physically present, but mentally in another world, taking on a series of other identities—email correspondent, movie viewer, photo editor, social network commentator, and consumer, among others. Rather than despair in the face of this behavior, however, teachers can channel those escapist desires for educational purposes. Th