[IAEP] What is a Lesson Plan?

[Chris Leonard]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Antoine van Gelder <antoine at g7.org.za>
wrote:

>
>
> One immediate thought that springs to mind for me when I think of XO's
> running world3 is networking the simulation so that each kid's machine is
> responsible for one part of the model. (Minister for Agriculture, Minister
> for Economics, Minister for Environment etc) It makes for an interesting
> experience when kids can see the effect that systemic behavior, which has a
> good outcome for their part of the system, has on the health of the whole
> which, in turn, eventually impacts their own part of the system as the
> feedback loop closes.
>
> A really ambitious idea could be to replace the differential equations
> driving world3 with the output from an agent simulation such as SimCity-ish.
> (Hi Don! :-D)
>

In some ways, the original FoodForce from the World Food program at least
mimics some of the simulation approach to teaching about food aid and
resource prioritization (with a whopping dose of WFP advertorial).  It will
be interesting to see what the folks now working on FoodForce2 for the XO
come up with.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Food_Force

cjl



http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Food_Force
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