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TVW Spotlights iCivics in Engaged: Students Becoming Citizens

Washington's middle schools have embraced iCivics, and the state's TVW cable network has taken a look at the program in a new video.

iCivics Makes Anita's List

Educator-turned-educational-software-consultant Anita Greenburg blogs about free resources for teachers. Last September she stumbled upon iCivics, and is now heartily recommending it to her readers.

Gator Gamers Still Really Like Us

We previously mentioned some great reviews of Filament games from Gator Gamers, a joint blogging project between Raising Arizona Kids Magazine and the Video Game Club at Phoenix's Xavier College Preparatory. Looks like they came back for more.

Newsweek: Justice O'Connor's Videogame Revolution

It's about time we were in Newsweek! They've got a great article up on Sandra Day O'Connor diving headlong into video games at 81 to help prepare kids for citizenship.

G4C: 10 Good Minutes with Dan White

Games For Change has been getting a lot of positive feedback from folks inspired by a recent interview with our own Dan White; some of it from as far away as Japan.

Gator Gamers Like Us, Really Like Us

The Gator Gamers blog, a joint effort of Raising Arizona Kids Magazine and Xavier College Preparatory's Video Game Club, has covered a veritable Filament combo plate with recent reviews of Energy City, Cast Your Vote and Oncology.

WTN News Catches You Make Me Sick! Bug

Our March STEM Challenge win with You Make Me Sick! netted us a lot of press attention, but none so thorough as WTN's piece, which accompanies its in-depth look at the game with thoughts on games as learning tools from our own Dans Norton and White and Filament friend and collaborator Kurt Squire.

Minneapolis Middle School Succeeds With iCivics

Minneapolis' Anthony Middle School has boarded the iCivics bandwagon. The result? 300 students with a better handle on the power and purpose of government than most of their peers across the country, fewer than half of whom know the purpose of of the Bill of Rights and only 1 in 10 of whom understands the three branches of U.S. government.

Citizen Science Works Masters Some Mines

Citizen Science Works found us last week by way of (surprise!) Citizen Science, but went on to sample a nicely broad combo platter of our other games, including some iCivics and Jason Science titles. The game that really held their interest and inspired much of this blog post? MasterMines.

Gamification Explores Their Civic Duties

The Gamification Blog posted a seriously glowing review of the serious games at iCivics.org last week. In it, our games for Sandra Day O'Connor's groundbreaking civics education initiative were likened favorably to Zynga's runaway Facebook hits and praised for dodging partisanship.