Friday, August 14, 2009

Poop Is As Thin As A Ribbon

Media: World Simulation Project

Michael Wesche again. Still in the circle of the new needs of students and new university fossilized jump start (remember the movie necessarily Wesche
"Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us / ing Us
) The course" Introduction to Cultural Anthropology "organized by students rather Wesche atypical jobs. Decided that two hundred strong group of students will not only listen boring lectures. Students who come from different social groups, most of them not go out of the U.S., and in large numbers outside of Kansas the same, you need something more. They need to learn the complicated self-inter-relationships, which are useful to them in everyday life.



Wesche decided to implement his anti-philosophy of teaching, which involves a departure from the supervised transfer to the joint investigation of applications, primarily for discussion and questioning. Because asking questions is very important according Wesche, sometimes even more important than answers. And the most valuable are the questions that it is better not to answer, because it would probably answer silly questions, which corresponds to more questions. Wesche does not believe that his "anti-teaching philosophy" is more important than conventional teaching. This is a suggestion which is to be kind of a complement to conventional academic methods, is moving beyond the canon, which is not always congruent to the surrounding reality, what the students have argued previously presented in the film. End of entry, what did Wesche? Created a map of the artificial world, which to some extent would be the equivalent of "our" maps "charted" for her students, forcing them to share in the 1915-1920 sub-groups, and from 1912 to 1920 people each. Three weeks before the end of the semester, a group presentation of ethnography and its artificial culture and Wesche then went to work on constructing the simulation world.

simulation itself lasted only a short-tens of minutes, during which groups in contact with each other, exchanged, wrangled, emigrated. I will not elaborate. Further details can be found at:

basic philosophy, the setup

and rules & Objectives . What made me curious in the simulation Wesche and his students? For similar sumulacji perfectly suited to the Internet. There is no need to build several new communities that will establish relationships only on the hour during the course (this simplification, as summed up one of the students Wesche, "making the world took us thirteen weeks, we will destroy it in an hour"). Perhaps the experience of students from Kansas was great, but short, episodic, raising the complexity of the world, but certainly in some ways superficial. I have to admit that he intended to construct a similar simulation with students, When I suggested elective classes, "the construction of virtual learning space." Unfortunately, only signed up five people and the seizure did not appear in the timesheet. I was going together with students to construct a virtual state-micronation, focusing mainly on educational activity, built by a grassroots citizen action. Creating from scratch law, institutions, politics, economy and external activities. In contrast to the simulation Wesche, there would be no need to create several distinct cultures, but a state which would have an opportunity to build interaction with the v-existing states, a much more diverse culturally, politically and economically than create a short course for the student population Wesche.

thus constructed would be a great country to continue the simulation of the world, because this simulation is already in the Polish virtual states. Created nawiązałoby state relations with other countries, including the v-constant swirl of international simulation. Simulation, which was no intentional, but it began to flourish with the development of virtual countries themselves, which initially self, began to build more interesting areas of its activity on the basis of foreign policy. Relations between mikronacjami, disputes, alliances, friendships, war and peace to a share of newly discovered continents have a very long history. Revolution and the separation
Mandragoratu Wandystanu

from the Duchy of Sarmatia
, the dispute sarmacko-scholandzki, choosing a new pope in Rotrii - state church, Gnomes rise in Scholandii Kingdom, leading to the creation of alpine Republic Elfidy or coup Austro-Hungarian , Quarrel with the colonies on the no man's land, and perhaps the collapse of the international debate in the Polish Organization micronations - a virtual United Nations, of which some members, unable to bear the favor of the Permanent Council, formed a new organization? And this is only a small portion of events. A detailed description of the v-international situation at this task, perhaps more, dłuugi text ... However, I hope that my vision of building a sense of research micronations ever be fulfilled. Why tempt the classroom, students, and maybe some of the readers would be interested in working? Range of possibilities is huge ... About mikronacjach You can read my earlier post " micronation-state, which is not there?" and text Peter Siudy
"micronation in the mirror sociology
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