Sandra Day Gets Her Game On
The legal and tech blogs are abuzz with the news that retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is diving into the gaming world. From Wired's Game Life blog:
Delivering the keynote address Wednesday at the annual Games For Change conference at Parsons the New School For Design, O'Connor detailed a project she is spearheading called Our Courts, which she described as an "online, interactive civic education project for seventh- and eighth-graders" that familiarizes students with the legal system. O'Connor believes that America's youth aren't learning enough about civics, and thinks that the educational power of videogames is just the thing to change that."Only one-third of Americans can name the three branches of government," O'Connor said, "but two-thirds can name a judge on American Idol."
Executive, legislative, judicial -- boring! Crazy tales of Paula Abdul molesting Idol contestants -- exciting! We hope SOC realizes there needs to be an excitement factor if she wants to engage the kiddies. With this in mind, we suggest the following for the video game cover:
Sandra Day O'Connor: Game Designer [Wired]
Former Supreme Court Justice Switches to Video Games [Slashdot]
In Surprise to Herself, Justice O'Connor Makes Foray Into Digital Gaming [WSJ Law Blog]
(11) Comments
I would have liked a splice of SDO and the girl with the lollipop.
Whoever plays this video game is going to get beaten up as badly as the 11-year-old who hawked his bike and video game collection to donate to Hillary:
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/05/12/11-year-old-sells-video-games-donates-proceeds-to-hillary
This is kind of old news. She talked about this over a month ago when she spoke at Marquette.
What is a Marquette?
That video game cover is really funny. Grand jury...good one.
3:46 - It's where you go to buy stuff.
3:46 - it's just a smaller version of those big signs outside movie theaters. You know, for like, those low budget independent films.
3-46 - It's the daughter of a nobleman of the hereditary rank between duke and earl.
"Only one-third of Americans can name the three branches of government," O'Connor said, "but two-thirds can name a judge on American Idol."
I'll bet if you asked people to name one branch of government and all of the Idol judges you'd get the same numbers in the other direction.
Slow news day?
wouldn't a better comparison to being able to name all three branches of gov't be how many people can name all three american idol judges?