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].<div>
<br></div><div>web stuff would also be super excellent - maybe something like hackety hack [<a href="http://hacketyhack.net/">http://hacketyhack.net/</a>] or the opera web standards curriculum [<a href="http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/1-introduction-to-the-web-standards-cur/#toc">http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/1-introduction-to-the-web-standards-cur</a>]? 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-nikki</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Nirav Patel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:olpc@spongezone.net">olpc@spongezone.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Colin,<br>
<br>
Food Force ( <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Food_Force" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Food_Force</a> ) covers some of the<br>
Business/Economics ideas, though there is certainly room for more.<br>
Something like a Lemonade Stand (or Drug Wars minus the drugs) clone<br>
would be a good semi-educational game to cover basic market economics.<br>
<br>
Nirav<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Colin Zwiebel <<a href="mailto:computercolin@gmail.com">computercolin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hey,<br>
> I may be posting ideas that have already been developed, my appologies.<br>
><br>
> 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.<br>
><br>
> Business/Economic activities<br>
><br>
> Teach capital/resources/scarcity<br>
> Teach loans and budgeting<br>
> Teach market systems<br>
> Teach markup and value adding<br>
> Teach comparative/competitive advantage<br>
><br>
> 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.<br>
><br>
> Internet/IT<br>
><br>
> Teach the structure of the internet<br>
> Web development (html, xml, css)<br>
><br>
> Not sure I want to spearhead these, but I would love to get them out there. Feeback would also be awesome.<br>
><br>
> Enjoy,<br>
> Colin<br>
><br>
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