Event Creator: Jeff Applegate

Event Type: Web Event

Name: Learning Civics through Gaming: Our Courts

When: Mar 24 2010 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm-Mar 24 2010 , US/Pacific (GMT-08:00)*

Participant URL: http://tinyurl.com/lcparticipant

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Detail Description: As the vision of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, OUR COURTS is a free website offering several online games, with accompanying teacher materials, designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy.
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Filament Games, the game developer in the OUR COURTS team, brought to life "Argument Wars," "Supreme Decision," and "Do I have a Right?" to help middle school students "learn by doing civics" rather than simply learning about civics.
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Joining us to discuss the creation of these games will be Filament Games' Dan White (Founding Partner & CEO) and/or Dan Norton (Founding Partner & Lead Designer). Prior to this session, you can play the OUR COURTS games (http://ourcourts.org/play-games) and learn more about Justice O'Connor's vision (http://ourcourts.org/about-our-courts).

Tags: ,Learning Games, Play, Civics, Social Studies, US Government,

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