<br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Antoine van Gelder <<a href="mailto:antoine@g7.org.za">antoine@g7.org.za</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div> <div></div> <div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>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.<br> <br>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)<br></div></div></blockquote> <div> </div> <div>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.</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Food_Force">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Food_Force</a></div> <div> </div> <div>cjl</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Food_Force">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Food_Force</a></div></div>