Thursday, May 13, 2010

GREAT Games! Third World Farmer and Free Rice

From the web site (http://www.3rdworldfarmer.com/) PLAY NOW! -
"In the game, the player gets to manage an African farm and is soon confronted with the difficult choices that poverty and conflict can cause.
As a farm and family management game it has an emotional impact on many players because usually these types of games play out in much easier settings, where it's always possible to prosper by playing cleverly and making the right game choices. It's not always like that in 3rd World Farmer. Just like real people are dying from starvation in desperate situations that they never asked to be put in, all it takes for things to go wrong in this game is one bad harvest, an unfortunate encounter with corrupt officials, a raid by guerillas, a civil war, a sudden fluctuation in market prices, or any of the many other game events, that might never happen to families in industrialized countries.
By letting players experience this - albeit in a harmless, fictional setting - we hope to open their eyes to the problems and to motivate them to make positive social change. Our aim is to have everybody play the game, reflect, discuss and act on it."

Free Rice
"FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program. Our partner is the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
FreeRice has two goals:
  1. Provide education to everyone for free.
  2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
This is made possible by the generosity of the sponsors who advertise on this site.
Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your education can improve your life. It is a great investment in yourself.
Perhaps even greater is the investment your donated rice makes in hungry human beings, enabling them to function and be productive. Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide. Thank you."

3 comments:

  1. Hello, Evan. My name is Amy Stapp and I am an economics instructor for Cuesta College in California. I have used your videos the past couple of semester in my course and am wondering if you would be willing to continue sharing them with me. I teach two Principles courses and I find that the 3-7 minute clips are perfect for introducing a new concept. Students love them! My email address is amy_stapp@cuesta.edu and I would love to hear if you are willing to share them with me or if you are willing to bundle them together for me to purchase a few.
    Thank you in advance for this wonderful teaching tool.
    Amy

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