Abstract—Nowadays, there are many seemingly unsolvable
problems around the world. Some of these problems are caused
by a lack of early education on civic responsibilities that leads to
people with a lack of understanding of the need for discipline, a
lack of ethics, misunderstanding, misleading, and mistrust of
democracy. In addition, this is exasperated by the need for
competition of natural resources and lands. Children at a young
age, should be exposed to civic education and encouraged to
practice what is taught about their civic responsibilities,
especially during their elementary level in primary schools. At
present, new generations in Thailand, including many leaders at
several levels tend to pay little attention to civic education.
Courses and activities that provide knowledge and practice
about civic education are of little concern for inclusion in
curricula and classrooms at most levels of Thai educational
systems. In order to begin to address these problems, the study
reports on the possibility of using computer games and digital
media to encourage pupils to understand about civic educations
in some focused topics that involve some current critical issues
in Thailand such as an understanding and respect for traffic
laws, discipline in schools, and waste disposal management. The
consequent results of these problems lead many serious
difficulties to most Thai communities. Our proposed computer
games and digital media can be used as learning support in
classrooms and for civic education self-learning outside
classrooms.
Index Terms—Civic education, computer game, digital media,
school discipline, traffic law, waste disposal management.
Amnart Pohthong is with the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of
Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, 90110, Thailand.
(e-mail: amnart.p@psu.ac.th).
Alwanee Samoh and Hanuna Hengtakaeh are with Faculty of Science,
Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, 90110, Thailand (e-mail:
comacc@hotmail.com, keesongsai_19@hotmail.com).
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Cite:Amnart Pohthong, Alwanee Samoh, and Hanuna Hengtakaeh, "Computer Games and Digital Media for Promoting
Awareness of Civic Education: A Case Study of Some
Critical Problems in Thailand," International Journal of Future Computer and Communication vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 275-280, 2014.