{"id":2149,"date":"2015-04-19T21:15:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T04:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2015-04-19T21:15:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T04:15:34","slug":"a-12-year-old-girl-takes-on-the-video-game-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/2015\/04\/19\/a-12-year-old-girl-takes-on-the-video-game-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"A 12-Year-Old Girl Takes On The Video Game Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2015\/04\/temple-run.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2151\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2015\/04\/temple-run.png\" alt=\"temple run\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><\/a>We all have our biases. \u00a0Many we don&#8217;t even realize or know about. \u00a0As a school district we have started important conversations to uncover our biases and to address equity issues. \u00a0We haven&#8217;t solved all our issues but at least we have started the conversation. Biases and equity issues even occur in video games. Want to play as a female in your favorite video game? \u00a0Be prepared to pay. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2015\/04\/08\/398297737\/a-12-year-old-girl-takes-on-the-video-game-industry\">Click here<\/a><\/strong> to read about a 12 year old girl and her battle with the video game industry to include more female characters in the games she likes to play. \u00a0She was tired of having to pay to play as a female and let her feelings be known. \u00a0Good for her!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have our biases. \u00a0Many we don&#8217;t even realize or know about. \u00a0As a school district we have started important conversations to uncover our biases and to address equity issues. \u00a0We haven&#8217;t solved all our issues but at least <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/2015\/04\/19\/a-12-year-old-girl-takes-on-the-video-game-industry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  A 12-Year-Old Girl Takes On The Video Game Industry<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stc_notifier_status":"","_stc_notifier_sent_time":"","_stc_notifier_request":false,"_stc_notifier_prevent":false,"_stc_subscriber_keywords":"","_stc_subscriber_search_areas":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}