Abstract
Scholars, practitioners, and society at large are becoming increasingly interested in how resilience works (Coutu, 2002). This activity gives students the opportunity to build a network structure and assess its resilience, while learning the concepts and calculation steps of basic network metrics including density, reachability, and centralization. The article provides guidelines for preparing necessary materials (e.g., marshmallows and spaghetti noodles or LEGO® pieces), detailed procedures and worksheet for the activity, and debriefing questions for connecting the experiences from the activity with real world examples of communication networks and resilience.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Seungyoon and Benedict, Bailey C.
(2021)
"Building Resilience: An Exercise to Create Network Structures and Assess Resilience with Marshmallows and Spaghetti Noodles or LEGO® Pieces,"
Discourse: The Journal of the SCASD: Vol. 6, Article 4.
Available at:
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/discoursejournal/vol6/iss1/4