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According to the New York Times Magazine Q&A with Sandra Day O’Connor, she’s got a new website venture:
At the age of 78, you have just begun a new Web site, Ourcourts.org, which is aimed at middle-school kids and their teachers and springs from your belief that civics education has been marginalized in this country.
Polls say only about one-third of Americans can even name the three branches of government, much less say what they do.What would you like us to know about the judicial branch of our government?
Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.…
Whom did you vote for in the presidential election?
Come on, is this about my Web site?O.K., go ahead, put in a plug. Tell us why kids should log onto Ourcourts.org.
You’ll have a good time if you do because we have some games that you will find most intriguing.
I checked it out and it does look fun. Of course, it was done in conjunction with two of my favorite schools – Georgetown University, my alma mater, and Arizona State University, where several people I know went to school and for which I’ve written before (thank you Liz Massey, who has a beautiful blog for writers). For those who don’t know, the former Justice lives in Arizona now and I think it’s great that she found a way to use/collaborate with folks at the school.
I see two names – Christopher Cerf and James Gee – and wonder if they’re related to Vincent Cerf and Gordon Gee.
Anyway – take a look. I think she’s on to something and I am going to forward it to education people too.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:44 pm March 22nd, 2009 in Courts, Education, Government, Media, social media
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This looks like a wonderful resource. The game page looks a little lacking, but maybe it will undergo further development. I wonder if the developers have considered plugging into an existing multiplayer game site to develop civics lessons.