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Students engaged in participatory simulations act out the roles of individual system elements and then see how the behavior of the system as a whole can emerge from these individual behaviors.
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Figure 1: Learners Assume Roles and Interactively Create an Emergent Behavior in a Participatory System
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The emergent behavior (see Figure 1) of the system and its relation to individual participant actions and strategies can then become the object of collective discussion and analysis.
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