Educational experiences for students
Legends Tours designed the Beyond Bruges Edukit, which uses Bruges' rich history as a mirror to reflect on present-day society. The aim of the Edukit is to get students to think about contemporary and future social issues that have their origins in the past and to use artificial intelligence to help find solutions to these complex issues.
The Edukit Beyond Bruges is a three-part lesson series and includes a pocket-sized workbook, an innovative app and a board game. It includes research into the reliability of stories, a virtual and/or real excursion to Bruges, and an engaging workshop that transforms the gained knowledge into research questions that students can present to artificial intelligence with the aim of creating a vision of tomorrow's society. Contact us now for a price quote for your school.
In the first lesson, we explore the origin story of Bruges and delve deeper into the distinction between truth and fiction. We consider the power of stories and how they influence reality as a reflection on the role of social media and disinformation in today's society.
During the second lesson, we take a trip to Bruges to discover its fascinating past as a commercial powerhouse and cradle of early capitalism. The students fill in the handy booklet full of interesting questions and facts about the history of Bruges as they make their way through the city centre, either virtually or in real life.
For the excursion to Bruges, students use our app Beyond Bruges, which allows them to retrieve information about every landmark and go back in time to discover the city during its glory days in the Middle Ages. This provides an innovative learning experience that students can enjoy from anywhere, whether in the classroom, at home or in Bruges.
During the third lesson, students play a board game where they learn how to recognise the patterns that took place in our history and discover how those patterns manifest themselves again today. Students then formulate research questions on these themes and engage AI to explore how these social issues will evolve in the future.
Order the Beyond Bruges Edukit and we'll send you a stylish black box that contains a booklet per student, a board game and a unique code that grants full access to the Beyond Bruges app. In this app, we have incorporated every conceivable piece of information about medieval Bruges and students can travel back in time to the Bruges of the Middle Ages. Using the board game, students discover the patterns between history and the present and engage AI to imagine a future based on the past.
With the Beyond Bruges Edukit, students don’t just observe—they engage, discover, and form a deeper understanding of complex issues, making it a profound and exciting learning experience. Contact us to introduce your school to the Beyond Bruges Edukit today!
The Edukit was a fantastic tool for our students to learn about history and at the same time relect on today's society and the challenges we face as a global community!
Artificial Intelligence will undoubtedly have a huge impact on how we organise our society, and this Edukit gets students thinking in an accessible way about how we can use AI to change the patterns of history.
Our students enjoyed these lessons immensely and also learnt a lot that will help them think critically about many important topics. Good job!
In this project, we see many learning objectives coming together, not least the linking of heritage, art and culture to social themes, as well as the focus on innovative ways of cultural education. It was a very interesting experience!
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