John Hunter talks on TED about his World Peace Game. He got a job teaching special education without any previous experience and he was allowed to do whatever he wanted to with his job because there were little to no standards. He grew to love teaching and wanted to teach students in a hands-on way so that they were involved in their learning. He later made a film to describe his World Peace Game. After watching his own film, he saw that he expressed his past teachers and parents through his teaching. Their teaching prepared him for his teaching. He was a continuation of his parents. The World Peace Game is an interactive game and it shows different levels of space, clouds, the earth, countries, etc.. The focus of the game is on Africa. It consists of aspects like enviromental issues, economical issues, famine, warfare, etc. He wants his students to see the issues around the world. The students enjoy it because they are actually learning something by doing a game that is very fun. The game has intentions to help students learn to fix the corrupt world we have created. Children engage in this game and they want to learn more and more about the world around us as they continue to play the game. They are able to find out what is right their own way and by their own self.
I think this game is very benficial for all students. It allows students to learn about our world in a hands-on way instead of from lectures and facts out of a book. I believe that students learn better through interaction than lecture, and this game proves that to be true. Children are able to learn about the world problems at an early age and that draws the students into the worldly problems and they will most likey become more interested in the future. The World Peace Game educates children on the important facts of our world. Teachers have to bring real life/world into children's perspective.
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