Educational? You Be The Judge.
Last year, we wrote about retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor entering a new field: video game development. She’s spearheading a project called Our Courts, which seeks to improve civic education in middle schools. The Our Courts website officially launched in January of this year.
The first two games, “Supreme Decision” and “Do I Have A Right?”, went live this summer. The Washington Post contacted us and asked us to review them. We played Nintendo, Oregon Trail, and Carmen Sandiego growing up, and we spent a recent Friday night at Elie’s playing Rock Band, so we were willing to give the Our Courts game a go.
Check out our review of the games, along with additional reflections on civic education and public access to the courts, in this Washington Post piece: Educational? You Be the Judge.
While Lat was in D.C., he swung by the Washington Post’s offices to talk about the games. Check out his star turn in the video after the jump.
Lat will talk you through the games (and our piece) in this video: Gaming the (Judicial) System.
Educational? You Be the Judge. [Washington Post]
Earlier: Sandra Day Gets Her Game On
Jon Stewart Goes ‘Behind the Robes’ of Sandra Day
An Update on Sandra Day and ‘Our Courts’
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I pity the fool
Hey Everybody!
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My toddler just pooped.
Unemployed '09
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do you have a written piece for those of us who cannot do sound at work?
Excellent Lat. Good work.
6 - the video is not worth watching. It's just 2 minutes of Lat talking about how much he likes guys. Nothing out of the ordinary for this site.
6 - The written piece is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100103888.html
Nice piece, Kash & Lat - congrats.
Moar stories about judges felating themselves while sitting at the bench.
Thnx
I kept racking up prestige but didn't get to send a firm-wide memo cutting 40 associates. EA Sports, get in the game!
Quite exciting, this computer magic!
12 FTW. I racked up tons of prestige as well.
another happenin' day at ATL.
15 - Indeed! Getting published in the WaPo is a big deal.
This game seems to be at the right level for most lawyers.
Congratulations thisisgay, you're being promoted to head clerk!
This is probably about as close as I'll get to the real thing.
I think the audio on the video needs to be fixed. The game is making noise while Lat is talking.
4,
your toddler has just died of dysentary.
most boring post ever...
PS: David Saint Hubbins sucks...
Point of the game is to get prestige. But, I can't fire any of the lawyers once I hire them. Also, If my clients wait too long, I LOSE prestige... Isn't this the way firms get prestige these days? Oh, and there's so much business that people walk out of my office because of the long wait times. How unrealistic.
The piece starts to go downhill after the first sentence, as it starts to become more and more apparent that SOC isn't consulting on Grand Theft Auto: DC.
The comments on the Post's website are interesting:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100103888_Comments.html
The only person that would find the comments on the Post website to be interesting is someone who wrote one of those comments. Thanks for the waste of time.