very interesting - thanks for sharing. r At 01:41 AM 10/28/2002 -0800, you wrote:
As part of a class I taught last year on ³The Internet and Politics,² I developed an in-class exercise on technology and development. The exercise was greeted enthusiastically by my students, and spawned a number of term papers, so I thought it might be useful to other people teaching this topic. I¹ve created a page on my web site that describes the exercise and links to all the supplementary materials; it¹s online at http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/teaching/developmentcases/techdevelopment.htm l
It¹s a group-based simulation exercise that asks each group to develop a development application for a specific technology. In the first part of the exercise, students are given a scenario, and work as a group to create their own technology-enabled development project. In the second part of the exercise, students learn about the real-world outcome from their scenario, and compare the real-world outcome with their own solution. The cases include Grameenphone, the Simputer project, community radio in Sri Lanka, and a couple of other projects.
Please let me know if you use the exercise in your own teaching, and if you have any suggestions for how I can improve it (I¹m happy to answer any questions, too). And please feel free to forward this e-mail to colleagues who may be interested.
Alexandra Samuel samuel@fas.harvard.edu http://www.alexandrasamuel.com
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