{"id":196,"date":"2010-12-10T15:35:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T15:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=196"},"modified":"2010-12-10T15:35:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T15:35:56","slug":"its-the-end-of-term-time-to-play-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/its-the-end-of-term-time-to-play-games\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the end of term &#8211; time to play games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I have mostly been playing a business simulation called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simceo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">simCEO<\/a>. I&#8217;ve used a couple of other simulations of this type in the past and at first glance it&#8217;s pretty typical: students create a company, complete various activities associated with the development of the company, and manage a portfolio of shares.<\/p>\n<p>Where this game differs is in it&#8217;s flexibility, where teachers can\u00a0 use the software in a variety of different ways and settings by adapting the environment and rules, so that students can create companies as individuals or groups, or work for other companies, or simply make money trading on the stock market. I also like the way that the game is explicitly linked to pedagogy and assessment, providing classroom extension activities and activity sheets to link specific curriculum areas to game play, and\u00a0through the use of customizable assignments linked to game activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I have mostly been playing a business simulation called simCEO. I&#8217;ve used a couple of other simulations of this type in the past and at first glance it&#8217;s pretty typical: students create a company, complete various activities associated&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/its-the-end-of-term-time-to-play-games\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[167,166],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-business","tag-simulation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-3a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}