Robyn and Ben in Hong Kong: Student group thinking

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Robyn
And Ben

In Hong Kong

Monday, May 28, 2007

Student group thinking

So my friend was telling me today how she did a lesson with her primary students. The students were given a situation where they were assigned different characters and had to pretend that they were all in a hot air balloon.

but...

The air balloon is going to crash!! They have to decide which two people should be thrown out of the air balloon to lighten the load and save the group.

The character list went something like: scientist with cure to cancer, doctor, engineer, pregnant lady, prime minister, small child etc etc etc.

After much discussion the students came to their decision. The pregnant lady and small child had to die. The reason for this? Well the students decided they were of no real use and could not justify their staying on the balloon.

If that is not a classic cultural difference moment I don't know what is.

bx

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...: Seems pretty good thinking to me, however the current prime minister would have gone first!or perhaps have him on a bungee so he thought he was going to survive.. and then cut through it; 11:39 PM
robynandben said...: no one click on the 'click noticias' thing above this. It may well be a virus or something as I have no idea who it is.; 7:36 AM