{"id":2120,"date":"2019-04-06T19:27:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2019-04-06T19:27:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:27:31","slug":"a-place-at-the-table-board-games-at-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/06\/a-place-at-the-table-board-games-at-school\/","title":{"rendered":"A Place at the Table: Board Games at School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, we have a guest writer for A Place at the Table. My teenager, Janeway, has written about an experience she had on a group project at school. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Captain\u2019s log. Stardate 72634.4. Janeway here. I know my mom has mentioned my a few times and already done a piece on who we all are, so let\u2019s get to the point of this. I\u2019m currently in Econ in high school. We recently had to make a board game covering everything we\u2019ve learned so far, as a way to study for an upcoming test. I was ecstatic; after all, I\u2019ve played a good deal of board games and had a great idea for a worker placement game. My partners, however, shot me down by saying it\u2019d be too hard. After two days of arguing, we split the group, and I made the worker placement game. Everyone else had made a Monopoly style game or some other variation of rolling a dice and moving along a path. Every single one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I\u2019m not saying those types of games are \u201cinferior\u201d to worker placement games. A lot of people had really good games, and I\u2019m up for playing Life now and again. But with a \u201croll-and-move\u201d type of game, you can\u2019t choose what to do. You have no control over the outcome of the game. And you don\u2019t have to apply the concepts that you\u2019re trying to learn. You could play one of the poorer made games from my class and walk away not knowing anything about economics. But when you have to place your meeple,<\/g> and decide how to use your money, you can understand the concepts a lot better. You can see how your choices determine the outcome. It makes sense when you can see what\u2019s going on, rather than just reading it off a card. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only can these games be suited for studying, but they’re also really fun. The worst part, aside from my group not wanting to go out on a limb with a new idea, was that no one knew what I was talking about when I was giving examples from other games. Terraforming Mars, Lords of Waterdeep, even Ticket to Ride, no one had heard of them. NO ONE in my class, not even my teacher, knew what these games were. I\u2019ve played these games so many times, that it\u2019s just mind-boggling that no one knows about them. Please, feel free to bring your kids, your teens, and their friends to game night. It gets lonely having no one within a 15 year age range of myself. And, hey, maybe it\u2019ll help them get some extra credit on the next board game they have to do in class. Janeway out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Take a trip with Janeway as she ventures into the realm of board games at school. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272,277],"tags":[257,280,293],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-place-at-the-table","category-blogs","tag-a-place-at-the-table","tag-blog","tag-janeway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traversecityboardgamers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}