Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:1122] RE: IFETS-DISCUSSION digest 165 Balance Between Free-Form and Properly Designed Role Play
From: Nelson, Dennis (Dennis.Nelson@ny.ngb.army.mil)
Date: Wed 14 Feb 2001 - 04:55:29 MET
From: "Nelson, Dennis" <Dennis.Nelson@ny.ngb.army.mil> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:1122] RE: IFETS-DISCUSSION digest 165 Balance Between Free-Form and Properly Designed Role Play Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:55:29 +1300
Albert wrote, in part:
>>>We certainly are seeing a wide spectrum of role play from free form to
highly structured. I believe that both have their value in being a strategy
teacher can use to facililate learning. However, I believe that free form
role play will mean lower initial effort in setting up, but likely to have
higher effort in running and repeating the exercise. Whereas, a properly
designed structured role play, while takes more effort in the design, may be
re-used in less effort. This is my intuition and would like seek support or
otherwise from the broader experience pool of this discussion list.<<<
Existence (e.g., the universe) is in balance or would collapse or spin into
oblivion.
All existence is on a continuum from the smallest entity we label to the
largest.
Every part of existence must have the characteristics of the whole.
Role playing is a part of the whole.
All levels of free-form to properly designed role play are balanced in their
pluses or minuses over all distance and all time. The parameters, to
include intended outcomes, we impose decide the balance of the spot in the
parameters of time and location we chose. Absent the knowledge of all time
and space, we only can guess at whether the balance tips for or our against
our aims. If we are true to our absolute values and what we know to be
true, we have greater odds our attempts will be positive and have more
positive than negative outcomes.
Dennis
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