A
world wide event has destroyed most of the world's population and
it's infrastructure. You are among the world's only survivors. You
are confined to a small bomb shelter because you are unsure if the
environment outside is safe. To survive you must work together and
organize your new society.
A
few rules to guide you:
-you
can use anything in the classroom to facilitate your plans
-you
cannot leave the room.
-you
must elect a leader
-you
must record your history
-you
must establish law and order
-you
must delegate responsibilities
-you
must tally your resources and consider alternatives
YOU
MUST SURVIVE
What
was your first thought when the clip came on? Do you think this
activity simulated an end of days scenario in a believable way? Were
you able to work together to survive? Were you surprised at how
people reacted? Were your surprised about others ideas of how to do
things? Were you surprised as to whom was elected leader of the
group? What else surprised you about this activity?
When the clip first came on I wondered if maybe it had some relation to the news we hear every day about North Korean nuclear issues. After the clip ended and the instructions appeared it felt like a remade version of the Stanford Prison Experiment. When [you] left the class began to think it was for a moment, and things only got stranger from there.
ReplyDeleteI believe this experience was necessary for [your] educational judgment and for the present threat we live under today. Nuclear warfare is no joke and if Korea launches tomorrow, would any of us truly be ready? There would obviously be a very large scale of panic and distrust between survivors, if any. If this were a real scenario I'm positive that no one would have behaved as accordingly as we did.
As a group we worked well together. Right away we started thinking contextually after the realization that [you] weren't coming back. Zack, being Zack, elected himself as the slightly anarchic leader of our new society. We jotted down ideas of roles to play and resources to counter and established some form of natural "order" within the class. No one objected to any of the obscene rules and commandments we promoted, thus not causing any "political" issues off the cuff. We played our roles as [you] would have expected us to and eventually the experiment became droll. A couple people "died" after leaving. At times like these, things were heading into chaotic direction. I suppose it's natural for boredom to occur when role playing with few props and life-like accordance.
Typically speaking, I think it's safe to say that the entirety of the experience was shocking in a confusing way. Without coordination, which brings context to the anarchic idea of having every modern structure destroyed, I was surprised we all did what we did in the time we had. I would recommend inviting other classes of the same age group to participate to shake things up a bit.