DATE : 11.10.86 LECTURE : MAIN METHOD V The Use of Games § Simulations in Geagranhy. What are Ganes 2. = participants are required to take a rational and justifiable decision based on a given body of data - can range fron the sisple (board & rules) to the complex (METFAB project ~ vast dossier - profile - role playing element - STARPOVER ) = data should be accurate and should be handled precisely ~ shouldn't be 2 lack of rigour 1g Railvay Pioneers (Rex Walford) ~ historically accurate ~ Green Revolution Gane 1d up strategy to contain the > trying to be either an optiniser or a satisficer: buil chance elenent - (1968 - WT - Herefordshire Farming Gane) ~ interactive - successful game should also have an acadenic pedigr out of thin air ~ need for resources ~ games, like models, are simplifications of reality = High Fidelity; focus on processes - also, usually, they contain an elenant of chance or it = can never can't create then uncertainty: reflect the inperfect state of man's decision-making environsen be quite certain, therefore have to develop a coping strategy ~ Rex Valford ~ should have 4 elenents; 1) Chance; 2) challenge/coapetition ~ danger of this GCSE (task of teacher to observe this happening); 3) el of verbiga; excitenent or wotivational push = usually progress as a series of turns which conpress/expand real tine - = provide a sieplified and selective environaent - objectives have to be clear, sinple and fit in with egalitarian stance of went of role-playing; 4) elenent Jinded ~ danger of over-conplexity otherviss single = since 1968, '000's have been developed - sone are related to location ; Iron & St Gane (NETFAG) ~ or redistribution of industry ~ others are nonte-carlo type simulations i.e can eaploy a computer ~ sahtleasnt patterns (Oxford Geog Project: location of Anglo- Saxon settleaent; locating London's 3rd Airport) - farming ga Herefordshire Farming (3-16) - prairie fara, Green Revolution Gane (computer aoderated) - route planning ganes - (Railvay Pioneers; Amazonian Highvay Gane) (Ref; ‘Simulations in the Classrooa' - Taylor & Walford; ‘Games in Geography’ Walford) - resqurce exploration (North Sea Gas Gane) - underdevelopnent & international relations - societal problens - Herefordshire Conservation Gane Voy Use Games 2 = popular, fun, increases aotivation - nay result from uncertainty of qutcone ~ widening of the attention span - inproves the quality of real thinking; have to develop a strategy enable 2 closer approach to the trutt 1 = nan vs environment ~ + 0 iaple ansvers, if any, to probleas raisat bcaoe they tave to ute 10 the the trivial - allegedly, develop teacher - children who do still involve teachers