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• Title: Fun and Games of Teaching: Simulations in a Social Problems Course (Honors Strategies)
• Author : Honors in Practice
• Release Date : January 01, 2006
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 202 KB

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In attempts to move my honors social problems course from a passive environment to a more active and student-centered one, I drew on my experience and the experience of others using simulations to produce a course model committed to "games" and student-initiated learning. I stepped back and reevaluated what I wanted my students to gain while in my class and what impact I wanted the course to have on their future in society. Simulation games provide an opportunity for students to discover knowledge and drive their own education rather than passively taking in information. These "games" are simulations of real world phenomena that can be reproduced in a classroom for academic purposes. For example, I use a game called "The Sinking Ship" to examine status, occupation, education, and power. Each student is given an index card with a status written on it such as migrant worker, senator, college student, or nurse. I then read a prepared statement explaining that they are all on a sinking ship and have fifteen minutes to decide who of the eighteen passengers will be given the six lifeboat seats. I sit back and give them fifteen minutes to write the chosen survivors on the board. Usually they start by going around the room and making a plea for why they should be saved according to the status on their card. I then walk them through a detailed briefing about why they chose those individuals. Usually the cues for debriefing come from one first question, "Why them?" They begin to talk about power by describing who can sue the ship line on behalf of the victims or what the senator can do for them in the government if he/she lives. They discuss status and education by detailing what skills and knowledge each survivor could contribute while in the life boat. Concepts of gender also arise as they consistently refer to the doctor as male and the nurse as female regardless of who has the card. The students themselves begin to analyze the social concepts for our discussion rather than my listing them from a power point.

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