{"id":6930,"date":"2021-03-29T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6930"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:59:45","slug":"blog-post-for-3-30-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/29\/blog-post-for-3-30-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post for 3\/30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was pretty frustrated by this game. The tutorial link wasn\u2019t working so I decided to just start the game by experimenting with my options. Considering the economics of surviving in an African village in a computer game is not something I ever thought I would do, but it turned out to be very difficult, at least for me. I did not know how to decide how to allocate time and resources in order to benefit Kadjo and Fatou and the rest of the village. I wasn\u2019t sure how to make decisions because I didn\u2019t know what to prioritize in my actions. However, this game did give me a better understanding of the difficulties of creating a prospering village. Considering health, disease, farming\/agriculture, infrastructure, business investments, water and more made me think about realities facing such villages. As the family grows and resources become scarce, decisions get more and more difficult. I think the point of this simulation isn\u2019t to \u201cwin\u201d and get points, but to gain a deeper understanding for survival in societies that we are not typically exposed to. This isn\u2019t just a computer game, it is reality for people around the world that we often don\u2019t give a second thought about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I also was interested in Dr. Bezio\u2019s comparison of systemic systems and the nervous system. I think this was a good illustration for people who don\u2019t necessarily know what people mean when they talk about systemic issues such as the -isms we are so familiar with. Systemic issues intersect with nearly every single factor in society. This complexity makes understanding these issues very difficult and finding solutions nearly impossible. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pretty frustrated by this game. The tutorial link wasn\u2019t working so I decided to just start the game by experimenting with my options. Considering the economics of surviving in an African village in a computer game is not something I ever thought I would do, but it turned out to be very difficult, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6931,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions\/6931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}