"Sandra Day O'Connor: Game Designer" from Wired reports that retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has gone from the judiciary to the game industry to improve civics education for today's students.
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.
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