[University-chapters] Idea for activity

[Nikki Lee]

those sound like pretty cool ideas. the economics games are always really
neat, and we could use more finished ones that cover different areas of
economic structure [local grower vs. corporate giant? not the same thing].
web stuff would also be super excellent - maybe something like hackety hack
[http://hacketyhack.net/] or the opera web standards curriculum [
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/1-introduction-to-the-web-standards-cur<http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/1-introduction-to-the-web-standards-cur/#toc>]?
i'm not sure if hackety hack is done yet; it wasn't very complete when i
tried it out. the opera curriculum is excellent though [i've gone through
all of it and referenced it a lot in building my personal site], and the
creators seem interested in getting it out there. if someone wanted to
tackle porting it/kiddifying it/something similar, i doubt it would be
terribly hard to get them to greenlight it.

-nikki

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Nirav Patel <olpc at spongezone.net> wrote:

> 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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