Morality Play: Old Game Gives us a New Way to Teach Ethics, Christopher Robichaud, TEDx Waltham ED

My TEDx talk will share the simulation design work that I have been doing at the Harvard Kennedy School, which won me the Innovation in Teaching Award in 2015. Tasked with creating an intense, daylong simulation for policy students that allowed them to exercise leadership skills and practice negotiation strategies while confronting ethical dilemmas, I turned to some of the design elements found in old school tabletop roleplaying games, like Dungeons Dragons. The result has been a very successful simulati