[Air-l] teaching tool: Technology and Development

[radhika gajjala]

very interesting - thanks for sharing.

r

At 01:41 AM 10/28/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>As part of a class I taught last year on ³The Internet and Politics,² I
>developed an in-class exercise on technology and development. The exercise
>was greeted enthusiastically by my students, and spawned a number of term
>papers, so I thought it might be useful to other people teaching this topic.
>I¹ve created a page on my web site that describes the exercise and links to
>all the supplementary materials; it¹s online at
>http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/teaching/developmentcases/techdevelopment.htm
>l
>
>It¹s a group-based simulation exercise that asks each group to develop a
>development application for a specific technology. In the first part of the
>exercise, students are given a scenario, and work as a group to create their
>own technology-enabled development project. In the second part of the
>exercise, students learn about the real-world outcome from their scenario,
>and compare the real-world outcome with their own solution.  The cases
>include Grameenphone, the Simputer project, community radio in Sri Lanka,
>and a couple of other projects.
>
>Please let me know if you use the exercise in your own teaching, and if you
>have any suggestions for how I can improve it (I¹m happy to answer any
>questions, too). And please feel free to forward this e-mail to colleagues
>who may be interested.
>
>Alexandra Samuel
>samuel at fas.harvard.edu
>http://www.alexandrasamuel.com
>
>
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Radhika Gajjala

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