{"id":6008,"date":"2011-10-05T17:41:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T01:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/?p=6008"},"modified":"2011-10-05T17:43:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T01:43:04","slug":"3rd-world-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/2011\/10\/05\/3rd-world-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"When I started playing 3rd World Farmer &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started playing <a title=\"3rd World Farmer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.3rdworldfarmer.com\/\">3rd World Farmer<\/a> I was a little lost about what I should do. I thought that this was not a good educational game. But I decided to continue playing in order to figure out what are players supposed to do. While playing I was discovering the things that I had to solve. According to my experience I got to the conclusion that this game is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a good exercise for decision-making and problem solving.<\/li>\n<li>an example of activities supported by constructivism.<\/li>\n<li>a game that fosters creativity and critical thinking.<\/li>\n<li>a friendly-user platform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, I think it would be more attractive for users that the game could foster a collaborative learning. <a title=\"3rd World Farmer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.3rdworldfarmer.com\/\">3rd World Farmer<\/a> is an individual game. If teams could play this game, it would promote more enriching learning experiences.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started playing 3rd World Farmer I was a little lost about what I should do. I thought that this was not a good educational game. But I decided to continue playing in order to figure out what are players supposed to do. While playing I was discovering the things that I had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[352341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-05-emerging-market-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6011,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008\/revisions\/6011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}