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Ideas for experiential exercise to open a facilitated conversation about an adaptive challenge?
Hello FC allstars! ๐Ÿ‘‹ I am facilitating a 2 hour convo with 30 folks exploring the impact of the digital divide: "the gap between those who have access to technology, the internet and digital literacy training and those who do not." My instinct is to open with some sort of experience/exercise/simulation (20-30 min total) to help the group experience the frustration/limits ๐Ÿ˜– that those without access may experience navigating our digital world. The goal is to raise awareness of, and help participants emotionally connect to the issue. What comes to mind ๐Ÿ’กis handing out cards when they come in that outline resources they have access to, and then giving everyone a timed task to complete, with rewards (surfacing the difficulty those without access could experience) Or perhaps setting small groups on a task together and then mid way through taking away a critical tool / blocking their ability to use something they take for granted... Then ending with a debrief -I suppose it doesn't even have to be tech related if I could connect the experience of frustration/limit to the topic afterward - My questions is: Has anyone done a paradigm shifting/awareness raising exercise like this? I'd like to make it as dynamic as possible but my brain ๐Ÿง  is coming up short. Any examples used with different topics are welcome ๐Ÿ™ Just trying to spark my own aha so I can create the conditions for the same surprise/gestalt shift in awareness ๐Ÿคฏ for the group. :) Thanks in advance for any suggestions/examples you can share or point me toward.
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Thank you @Ren Lis ! I think there may be something to the ER responder simulations... perhaps a way to connect it to emergency alerts that come to cell phone users and the impact on communities that would not receive those... thank you! This gets my wheels turning in a new way. And yes +1 to this sort of empathy/awareness being beneficial for educators to have regarding the difference in access their students have. Grateful that this disparity is surfacing more widely in community consciousness. I appreciate you taking the time to comment. ๐Ÿ™
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@Holly MacLean This is wonderful! Thank you for taking the time to write out the sequence of the activity you found so powerful - I can see why! I love the idea of an internet box, that some groups have access to - it made me think I could also simulate an "outage" by having one group have access for a while and then taking it away.... Another layer to this I neglected to include is the group is asked to look specifically at how this issue uniquely impacts women. I'm not sure I need to address that in the experiential component, but if ideas come to mind on that front, I'm all ears. Again, thank you for taking the time to share in detail - it's getting my wheels turning big time! ๐Ÿ™
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