[University-chapters] Idea for activity

[Nirav Patel]

Colin,

Food Force ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Food_Force ) covers some of the
Business/Economics ideas, though there is certainly room for more.
Something like a Lemonade Stand (or Drug Wars minus the drugs) clone
would be a good semi-educational game to cover basic market economics.

Nirav

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Colin Zwiebel <computercolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey,
> I may be posting ideas that have already been developed, my appologies.
>
> The other day I was thinking of the activities that are on the XO and what would be incredibly practical to children in the developing world (or the developed world, I suppose). Something I feel we are missing is business education and market forces. There are many arguments that rapid economic development is the only way to alleviate poverty. I don't know if this is true, but we need people educated on these topics.
>
> Business/Economic activities
>
> Teach capital/resources/scarcity
> Teach loans and budgeting
> Teach market systems
> Teach markup and value adding
> Teach comparative/competitive advantage
>
> Also, it may be possible that people in the developing world are able to earn money through web projects, since they aren't location dependant (granted you can get a computer and internet access). With this in mind an activity on the internet/IT might be useful.
>
> Internet/IT
>
> Teach the structure of the internet
> Web development (html, xml, css)
>
> Not sure I want to spearhead these, but I would love to get them out there. Feeback would also be awesome.
>
> Enjoy,
> Colin
>
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