There are many games out there that can be used to get students to appreciate a host of different challenges that are faced by the globe today. We can now add city planning to the mix in a game that goes beyond SimCity courtesy of IBM. CityOne challenges players to:
Solve real-world business, environmental and logistical problems. Learn how technology can revolutionize these industries. Explore ways to accelerate process change, integrate with trading partners, and control costs with a flexible IT infrastructure.
You can jump right to the game here, but you need to jump through registration – and looking at the fields, I don’t think IBM expects K-20 students to play it … Job Title? Industry – Retail/Banking/Energy/Water? Role in acquisitions?
IBM, if you are looking, open this up to at least High Schoolers (they will fake the answers anyway) and then we might have a way to really start making some of these changes and not (ironically) fall into the same trap that IBM quotes Einstein to avoid:
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
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