In October, as Simon Li completed talking at a world convention about embracing technological innovation in schooling, a number of Chinese language historical past educators approached him with a potent, urgent query: might a digital actuality (VR) venture concerning the 1937 Nanking bloodbath develop into the subsequent pedagogical frontier?
Li, government director of the Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre, recalled it as an electrifying second. “They were genuinely energised, saying that such a programme could help students feel history without being flooded by it,” he mentioned of the educators.
He added that the idea of an “ethical empathy VR” had been circulating inside tutorial circles for a while as a doable “evolution of atrocity education” in East Asia.
Currently, the thought has gained traction, as China held a nationwide commemorative ceremony on Saturday to mark the 88th anniversary of the Nanking bloodbath, which began on December 13, 1937, when Japanese troops occupied the then capital.
Historians’ estimates of the variety of fatalities differ broadly, starting from the tens of 1000’s to as excessive as 300,000.
Folks attend the nationwide memorial ceremony honouring the victims of the Nanking bloodbath of 1937 in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on December 13, 2022. Picture: Xinhua
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