Hunter works in the Richmond Public School District as a fourth grade gifted children's teacher. He says that the World Peace Game started as a small game map that was interacting. It is now a 4x4x4x4 structure. There are four countries around the board and the kids make up the names to them. It is a fictional Africa. Hunter tells the children that there is a problem within the world and they have to fix it. He says that "there collected wisdom is much greater than his."
This game has become a self evident analysis. It is nothing he has planned and nothing that can be taught. The students have put much emotion into this setting and really think carefully about the decisions they make. Through this you can see how engagement really makes a difference in teaching. The students are learning and obtaining more than what a book or lecture could probably teach them. At such a young age, Hunter's class is aware of what the world is going through. It may seem bad, but their "collected wisdom" is preparing them to be young, caring leaders.
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