Thursday, September 5, 2013

John Hunter and the World Peace Game

A 21st century wisdom table, world peace game, an experimental idea.  With no program to follow for the gifted classes he had open ideas for teaching.  With his teacher's in the past coming out in him helped him teach this class.  Coming from a segregated school it helped him appreciate teaching students today about everything.  The world peace game he took a board and laid out a map and made a learning game out of this board.  Now it has become 3d with different levels of the world and ocean.  Outer space, land and sea, undersea, to show the world.They make up different cities and different classes of people.  He wanted to see if they could solve the problems of Africa.  This was a hands on interactive lesson, with problems they need to solve that they have to figure it out, like what would happen in famine, oil spills, and other things. There is always a student who can give out and not follow which are the destruction of everything, which is a good idea for there is always an step back. This game shows how to fix the world because they will soon need to.  This is like an assessment of learning where they cannot test this knowledge but see that they are learning through all these efforts.  Every game is different, but they are still learning on what do to on their own and have this hands on teaching approach seems to work so much better than to have children sit down and memorize things and then be tested on it.  This is a great way to teach and it should be taught like this in many school.  Let the children be in charge and learn about things and figure out how to solve worldly problems,even if its fictional it gets them thinking about the what, who's, how and why's.  The classes in Mississippi would have a grater learning ability in understanding the world and how to get them thinking about life in general and what they can do in order to fix things around them.  In these schools students sit at a desk and just take notes but with hands on and learning by doing is a great way of getting a child to be curious about everything.

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