World Citizen by Teri Graves Teri's current contract is with a CD-I edutainment company in San Diego. The learner will be able to identify the nationality of a person based on social interactions which include visual or written information about that person's country or culture. The learners are American businesspersons who are considering world travel for business or pleasure, or any citizen of the United States interested in learning more about appropriate social conduct when traveling in foreign countries. This card game can be used by the learners after studying educational information presented by the corporate education programs division of IBM on foreign cultures and contexts. Rationale World Citizen is a simple card game based on matching two cards.
Competition becomes a significant motivator when play is within a group of two to four people.
A card game is useful for this type of instruction for several reasons. The amount of material to be learned is discrete and well-defined, the required learning of classifying objectives lends itself well to a card game, and having a card game introduces a unique way of learning this material. Each player is an important American businessperson visiting the World Citizen Village of Commerce where you meet many people from all over the world. You give speeches, facilitate seminars, arrange and attend parties, as well as conduct important business transactions with people from foreign countries. Because you are interested in maintaining good business relationships, within a structure of respect for cultural differences, you need to correctly determine each person's nationality.