Professor Lien Tran joins Full Spectrum Features (FSF) as the game design lead for their “Reckoning with Redress” project, an educational program (film + interactive site) to learn about the justice and reparation movement for Japanese Americans wrongfully incarcerated during World War II. This is FSF’s final project as part of a trilogy on Japanese… Continue reading Reckoning with Redress with Full Spectrum Features
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Games for civics op ed published in New Thinking
The majority of Americans know little about civics and government; video games could prove the unorthodox solution to our miseducation. This is the topic of Professor Lien Tran’s second op ed as a Public Voices fellow with The OpEd Project. On February 4, 2023, New Thinking magazine published her op ed entitled “The Game of Life: Leveraging Tech for Civics Education“. Educators… Continue reading Games for civics op ed published in New Thinking
Emerging technology’s role for telling critical Asian American history
Professor Lien Tran is part of DePaul University’s 2022-23 The OpEd Project’s Public Voices fellowship. Professor Tran’s first op ed entitled “Lunar New Year Offers a Chance to Reflect on Asian American History“, was published in VISIBLE magazine ahead of Lunar New Year on January 22, 2023. In this op ed, Tran shares examples for how… Continue reading Emerging technology’s role for telling critical Asian American history