{"id":6126,"date":"2016-03-27T19:47:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T19:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2016-03-27T19:47:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T19:47:45","slug":"a-supreme-court-pioneer-now-making-her-mark-on-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6126","title":{"rendered":"A Supreme Court Pioneer, Now Making Her Mark on Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a nice story about how Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/28\/technology\/sandra-day-oconnor-supreme-court-video-games.html?_r=0\">A Supreme Court Pioneer, Now Making Her Mark on Video Games<\/a>. O&#8217;Connor is promoting a game called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icivics.org\/games\/win-white-house\">Win the White House<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/icivics.org\">iCivics<\/a> a education group she started in 2009. She has also involved her Supreme Court colleague Sotomayor. The article mentions how such educational games are getting more respect.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The involvement of the two justices in digital educational games underscores a growing belief among educators that interactive tools may improve students\u2019 engagement in their own learning. In January, Microsoft introduced\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px;\" title=\"Times article on same.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/20\/technology\/microsoft-acquires-minecraftedu-tailored-for-schools.html\">an educational version of Minecraft<\/a>, the hit game in which players use blocks to construct elaborate virtual worlds. Last fall, Google unveiled\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/29\/technology\/google-virtual-reality-system-aims-to-enliven-education.html\">Expeditions<\/a>, a virtual reality system for classroom use that takes students on simulated field trips around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a nice story about how Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor, A Supreme Court Pioneer, Now Making Her Mark on Video Games. O&#8217;Connor is promoting a game called Win the White House from iCivics a education group she started in 2009. She has also involved her Supreme Court colleague Sotomayor. The article mentions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Supreme Court Pioneer, Now Making Her Mark on Video Games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6132,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions\/6132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}