A Classroom Lesson

[soonerhubs]

There's an activity I did as an undergrad where we broke up into teams with the rules regarding choices being made in either a competitive or cooperative setting. Anyone seen anything like this online?

Sorry I can't remember many details except that the lesson was the cooperation was the best method.

[SanJoaquinSooner]

Cooperative. Does that mean redistribution of the effort and brains?

[Curly Bill]

It means the smart kids have to help out the dumb kids. It's a good way to make the whole bunch of 'em mediocre. :D

[Frozen Sooner]

Try googling variable or non-zero sum games.

[Chuck Bao]

Like the Prisoner's Dilemma?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_dilemma

If that isn't it, click on game theory and I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for.

[soonerhubs]

Thanks folks. I think the Prisoner's Dilemma was what I was looking for. I'm teaching conflict theory today.