For each of the situations below, answer the following questions:
A reminder: here are some game and simulation formats to consider. Feel free to combine them where appropriate.
|
Non-Computer |
Computer-Based |
|---|---|
|
Card Games |
Arcade |
|
Board Games |
Adventure |
|
Role Plays |
Fantasy Role Plays |
|
Play-by-Mail Games |
Interactive Stories |
|
In-box Simulations |
Causal Simulations |
|
|
Procedural Simulations |
|
|
MUDs |
Situation
1
You've tried everything
(except games) and your sixth grade class just can't seem to get the hang of latitude
and longitude. It's an inner city school and thanks to Compensatory Ed and Chapter
1 funding, you do have some extra money to spend on the problem. Half of your
kids speak something other than English at home.
Appropriate?
Ideas?
Situation
2
You are the Sierra
Leonean in charge of the cultural sensitivity training of a group of Peace Corps
volunteers in West Africa. The training program is taking place at a secondary
school in the provincial capital, and the eighty volunteers attend your class
after doing their practice teaching all morning. Your job is to teach them the
rituals, mores and customs of Sierra Leone so that they can live comfortably
and without diplomatic incidents among your fellow citizens.
Appropriate?
Ideas?
Situation
3
It
is 1960 and you are the priest at the Immaculate Conception church who is in charge
of training the altar boys. The boys are in grades 3 and 4, and they have about
20 pages of Latin to memorize in order to be able to serve Mass. The class meets
after school in a room adjacent to the altar.
Appropriate?
Ideas?
Situation
4
To the untrained
eye, each blob on the sonar screen looks like every other blob. With practice,
however, one learns that some blobs are submarines and others are schools of fish.
You've just won the contract to design the training program to help Navy personnel
distinguish fifty or so blob types.
Appropriate?
Ideas?
Situation
5
The administrators
want to improve the quality of health care at the Hang-Luce HMO and so they've
arranged for a retreat with resident MD's, interns, nurses and technicians all
in attendance. The salary schedule at Hang-Luce is on the low end compared to
similar institutions, and none of the employees graduated at the top of their
class. There is a general sense of malaise and low self-esteem among them which
has affected their job performance. Now that they're all here in the mountains,
far from their phones and golf clubs and soap operas, you've got a shot at changing
the way they do business.
Appropriate?
Ideas?
Situation
6
A good journalist
can sniff out a story no matter how unresponsive the environment is, no matter
how soon the deadline comes. Your journalism class has been quick to give up when
roadblocks stand in their way and not nearly as proactive and aggressive at tracking
down the facts as you would like.
Appropriate?
Ideas?