威雅公学夏校——学术增益活动
时间： 2019-08-08
来源： 威雅公学
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当主持人喊道：“圆形的价格减半，三角形的价格涨为三倍！”欢呼声和抱怨声响彻屋内。接下来是激动人心的讨论、重新分配工作和充满活力的“银行家”。
这是上周威雅公学夏校项目中周六学术增益活动的一个场景，名为“国家间的高频交易”。这个关于制造和贸易的游戏向学生们展示了贸易是如何进行的，谁能从中受益，谁会蒙受损失。
该游戏还旨在帮助学生们更清楚地了解贸易如何对一个国家的繁荣产生影响。虽然活动只对非常复杂的全球贸易关系做了简单概述，但其目的之一是为了说明其中起到决定作用的基本问题。
为达到活动目的，学生们被分成6个小组，每个小组扮演不同的国家，其中包括美国、英国、巴西、印度、肯尼亚和柬埔寨。每个国家生产利用原材料生产商品，这些原材料的不同价值用不同形状的纸片来表达。
随后，各国将自己的产品卖给银行家。每个小组的目标都是尽可能多地赚钱。由于制造和贸易发生在背景中，游戏主持人改变了交易条款并创造了新的交易场景，这些场景反映了真实的情况。新的贸易条件通过刺激贸易增长或限制一国的制造能力来影响各国的贸易方式。
在制造与贸易游戏结束时，商务老师Mr Rao带领学生进行了一场重要的总结讨论，学生在讨论环节中详细地分享了他们的感受和经历，以及对自己的角色如何反映真实世界贸易的理解，并探讨了国际贸易的相关问题。让我们来看看学生们是怎么说的：
L. Li (IGCSE班第1组) - 经过这堂课，我学习到了很多关于国际贸易的知识。课堂上的小游戏让我深刻地意识到，在商业经营的时候我们必须做到有创造力和高效。这是一个充满意义的游戏，我非常享受其中。
N. Qian (IGCSE班第2组) - 在游戏中，每一个小组都必须团结一致、分工合作，每一个成员都必须竭尽所能获得胜利。在整个过程中，我也意识到了沟通交流的重要性，我很喜欢这样的游戏。
B. Qin (IGCSE班第3组) - 虽然那天我身体不适发着低烧，但课上的游戏给我留下了深刻的印象，我十分享受其中。通过游戏，我了解到了国际贸易的复杂性。
A. Ma (A Level班) - 良好的战略、出色的领导力以及团队凝聚力都是游戏中成功或失败的决定因素。同样地，一个国家经济的繁荣也是基于这些因素。我认为这个游戏确实很有趣！
“国家间的高频贸易” 是一个非常有趣的游戏，很好地为学生们解读了贸易关系的运作。看到学生们都很享受其中，威雅公学商务课程组感到很自豪，并希望继续通过游戏和活动的方式向学生传授复杂的商务概念和知识。
The facilitator shouted, “The price for circles has halved, while the price for triangles has tripled!” Hoorays and groans rippled across the venue. These were followed by excited discussions, frenzied work redistribution and energized runs to the ‘banker’.
This was a scene from last week’s WAIS Summer School Academic Enrichment Saturday, titled ‘High Frequency Trading Amongst Nations’. This manufacturing and trading game illustrated to participants how trade actually works, who can benefit and who may lose.
The game also aimed to help WAIS Summer School attendees understand clearly how trade affects a country’s prosperity. Although it provided only a simple outline of some very complex global trading relationships, one of the aims was to demonstrate the basic issues that determine them.
For the purpose of the above, WAIS Summer School attendees were divided into groups of 6, with each group role-playing different countries, that included USA, UK, Brazil, India, Kenya & Cambodia. Each country manufactured products from raw materials, which were represented by paper shapes of different values.
Subsequently, countries sold their products to the banker. Each group aiming to make as much money as possible. As manufacturing and trading occurred in the background, the game facilitators changed terms of trade and created new trading situations, which reflect real-life situations. New terms of trade affected the way countries trade, either by stimulating an increase in trading or restricting a country’s manufacturing capacity.
At the end of the manufacturing and trading game, WAIS Business Teacher A. Rao guided participants in a crucial debriefing discussion, where participants expressed their feelings， experiences and understood how their role reflected real-life world trading systems and explored the issues of international trade. Let’s read what our game participants have to say:
L. Li (IGCSE Group 1) - I have learnt a lot about the issues of International Trade. The game made me realised that we have to be creative and efficient in business. It is a very good game that I enjoyed.
N Qian (IGCSE Group 2) – Each group has to be united, divide its workload and each team member has to be diligent to win. I also noted that communication is most crucial. I really like this game.
B Qin (IGCSE Group 3) – While I was having a slight fever on that day, I truly enjoyed the game. The game taught me much about the complexities of International trade.
A Ma (IAL) – Sound strategies, competent leadership and team unity made all the difference between success & failure in this game. Similarly, a country’s economic success is also dependent on these factors. This game is very fun!
‘High Frequency Trading Amongst Nations’ is a fun game to explain how trading relationships work. WAIS business curriculum team is proud that participants enjoyed themselves. Our team truly enjoy imparting complex business concepts through games and activities.
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