{"id":5694,"date":"2009-05-18T09:38:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T09:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2009-05-18T09:38:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T09:38:24","slug":"legislative-aide-a-civics-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5694","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Aide: a civics simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t yet blogged about one of our significant activities this spring. We&#8217;ve helped <a href=\"http:\/\/ckbsoftware.com\/\">partners at the University of Wisconsin<\/a> to develop a game or simulation for teaching civics in high schools. Students play the roles of aides in a fictitious US Representative&#8217;s district office. They receive emails from senior staff asking them to take various steps in researching a local problem and developing solutions. At the heart of the simulation is the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/mt\/archives\/2009\/02\/the-boston-comm.html\">mapping software<\/a> that we are using in Boston with college students. It represents the mind of a community organizer or civic leader, who views local civil society as a working network of people, organizations, and issues. Our game combines fiction (the imaginary legislative office) with reality (actual issues and real interviews with community leaders, who are sources of information).<\/p>\n<p>We have been pilot-testing the software and curriculum&#8211;called Legislative Aide&#8211;in schools in Tampa, Florida (which explains my occasional visits down there). This movie provides an overview:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4658715&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4658715&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/4658715\">Legislative Aide<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1689479\">Jen Scott Curwood<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t yet blogged about one of our significant activities this spring. We&#8217;ve helped partners at the University of Wisconsin to develop a game or simulation for teaching civics in high schools. Students play the roles of aides in a fictitious US Representative&#8217;s district office. They receive emails from senior staff asking them to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-area-social-network","category-a-high-school-civics-class"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}