Author Archives: Civic Mirror
12th Grade Hawaiian Student, Demi Yoshida, Discusses Life-Lessons Learned from Civic Mirror
Civic Mirror not only teaches students about their political, legal, and economic systems, but – almost more importantly – it provides them with opportunities to learn important life-lessons that don’t come without personal challenge. In this submission, Demi Yoshida, a 12th … Continue reading
Announcing New Pricing Structure
Good News for Everyone Because one CM license creates one simulated country scenario for a class of students to share, we have always charged on a per-class basis. Effective immediately, our pricing structure has changed whereby the “freebie” kicks in on the second license, … Continue reading
What the What? Social Studies Tournaments!!?
Oh Yes, It’s True. With our recently released Country Rankings feature, classes can compare and contrast how well their Civic Mirror countries are doing to other ones around the world. For example, with roughly a month left in the 2014/15 school year, … Continue reading
Auctioneer Suprises 9th Graders
Hex Auction ‘Gets Real’ in Mountain View, Alberta In the picturesque hamlet of Mountain View, Alberta, situated on the vast prairies and on the footsteps of the Rocky Mountains, Mr. Jamie Quinton surprised his students by bringing in a real … Continue reading
CM Educator Wins National Award
Ms. Sara Shackett, Social Studies Teacher of the Year In the process of seeking user feedback for our Country Rankings features, we learned that Ms. Sara Shackett, the superstar teacher from Lakewood, Colorado, was the recipient of this year’s NCSS Social … Continue reading
CM 2.5.0 – Country Rankings Arrive!
We are proud to announce that Civic Mirror Country Rankings have arrived, providing students and educators with in-game metrics that can be used for inter-class competitions, as well as data for deeper analysis and comparative studies. Let’s first explain how they … Continue reading
Richard Dreyfuss and Protecting Democracy
Not Teaching Civic Education Is Suicide While best known as the lead actor in movies like Jaws and Mr. Holland’s Opus, Richard Dreyfuss has been working to improve civic education for well over a decade. And we’re not talking just TV interviews here… Dreyfuss … Continue reading
Exciting Feedback from Civic Mirror Newbie in Iowa
7th Grade Social Studies Teacher in Winterset, Iowa It’s emails from teachers and students like this one, from Mr. Jim Heitoff at Winterset Junior High School, that make all of us at CM Headquarters love our jobs! I’ve taught 7th grade social … Continue reading
Civic Mirror Message Mis-sends #2
Civic Mirror is a fun government game (as the conversation below will reveal) and it comes with a feature that allows users to receive email notifications when classmates message them within the system. These email notifications always start the same way: “DO … Continue reading
New! Citizen Leader Board and Better Stats Pages
The Civic Mirror Team is proud to present CM 2.4.8 which includes some cool new features that will make the CM experience even better. Citizen Leaders & News Page In our current initiative to make the shared Civic Mirror community more … Continue reading
