World of Warcraft, learning economics
13 year old "what I don't understand... is when WoW was new and nobody had much money, and a really good item dropped, how its price would be determined at auction"
Emergent* understanding of supply and demand and the effect of the money supply on market prices by a 13 yo.
More evidence (not that we needed more) of the educational value of WoW in its own right, in addition to the ways it could be used for teaching.
*emergent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent Emergence is the process of complex pattern formation from simpler rules OK I'm misusing the word but its my blog.
Emergent* understanding of supply and demand and the effect of the money supply on market prices by a 13 yo.
More evidence (not that we needed more) of the educational value of WoW in its own right, in addition to the ways it could be used for teaching.
*emergent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent Emergence is the process of complex pattern formation from simpler rules OK I'm misusing the word but its my blog.
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posted by Unknown at 5:32 PM
1 Comments:
Joi Ito's paper on emergent democracy is what initially persuaded me that blogs were something much more than a million monkeys hammering away on keyboards
You would be interested in Joi's wiki too, because I just noticed he had devoted a lot of it to World of Warcraft
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