The game is about how a third world farmer and how his family can survive and face the challenges. It’s about making the right decisions to help your family thrive for a sustainable future. In the game you are given a certain amount of money and expected to give medication, buy items, and crop so that for the next year you will have enough money to fulfill your basic need and more. You are given the chance to send your child to a school, for a better future, and knowledge to your future generations. You are also given the chance to medicate your family, but at a high cost. You have to consider the economic and environmental effect of your decisions. A short term decision is when you are spending or making a decision just for the time being, and not thinking of the side effects that might harm your future. Example of a short-term decision you might make in the game is providing you and your family food for the day or month, because eventually you run out of food and you aren’t thinking about the future but thinking about having a meal. Someone could be stuck in a cycle of poverty by not thinking about harvesting the right crops, that might help in the future, and buying the cheap crops that won’t give much income. With no income they can’t buy tools and send their kids for an education, to have a bright future. To get out of the cycle of poverty most people are helped with external investments like dancing for tourists, joining the army and planting illegal substances. Long- term decisions keep your future generations intact and help have sustenance. They are really good because they help insure your future, and guarantee you that your future is secure, and you might have money to educate, feed and work. When thinking long- term, you get to educate your children, have healthy food which increases the amount of work you do, which then leads to more income. I learned how hard it is for people living in a situation like the families in the game, how hard it is to make long- term decisions and for them to actually work. The SLR that best suites this game would be reasoning critically. This is so because you have to make the right decisions and reason critically to help the family to secure their future. This is a great game that you can really learn from, it shows the needs of people living in the third world, a way of living that normal people like us forget, a desperate need of basic needs that we don’t even think about in our day to day lives. We can’t know how hard an everyday life of people living in third world, but this game is a great way to connect and understand their situation.3rd World Farmer Picture: http://ict4peace.files.wordpress.com/2006/05/Smaller.jpg
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