The next Gen I Revolution task is Beyond the Mission, located adjacent to Murktide Invasion on the left side of the main page of Gen I Revolution. This taskasks you to ‘help’ someone make good decisions in 6 different scenarios. The questions are very tricky, but if you follow carefully, your chances of answering them correctly are much greater. The task is to successfully point the 6 people in the right respective directions with what they are doing, and each time identify the ‘double agent’. If you fail at the individual mission, you will be directed by the site to retry.

 

 To complete:

1) Go to Gen i Revolution

2) Choose the Beyond the Mission link

3) Complete all 6 missions, successfully pointing the operative in the right direction and identify the double-agent.

4) Screen shot every success

5) Post all 6 success shots on a blog post entitled “Beyond the Mission”

Gen i Revolution is a personal financial literacy game made by the authorities on the topic, The Council For Economic Education. The Council constantly strives to further economic education for the American student at all levels, and part of their philosophy is that the resources for learning need to be engaging to a 21st-century student, like yourself. The material covered in this game is the standard economics that have been taught in schools for decades, but they’ve included a ‘modern’ flair. The hope is that the student will find the material more engaging if it is presented in a game-challenge fashion. Let’s find out if we agree, shall we?

 

Gen i Revolution

 

You’ll need to go to the site for the game, and login with the username you chose a bit back, remembering the password you put in as well. There will be 4 tasks associated with this site, the first being Murktide Invasion. Your task here is tough, and will require some research and questioning of me. You need to have successfully conquered 3 lands that began the game as red, without losing any other lands in the process. In other words, you need to be up three territories from where you started. The process to gain land is first answer the questions appropriately, second ‘reinforce’ your current territories with the troops you just gained by answering correctly, then attack the lands you wish to attack. It will most likely take at least 4 rounds of questions to successfully pull this off, but the questions are good ones that we certainly want to know the answers to. If you find this game engaging, as the Council hopes you do, you can try for the jackpot: 125 points to actually win the Murktide Invasion and completely wipe out the red opponent.   Tough to do, but if you’re so inclined, go for it, but keep in mind there is no in between. Either take the 50, or achieve the threshold for 125. Good luck!

To complete:

1) Open Gen i Revolution

2) Play Murktide Invasion (link on the middle-left side of the main page)

3) Successfully maintain 3 lands (territories) more than when you started

4) Screen shot and post to your blog under “Murktide”

 

 

A while back I put you all in mysterious ‘groups’ on the Gen I Revolution site. Now it’s time to play. Your task here is to as a group, achieve as many points as you can playing through the main part of the game itself, not the side bar games that we’ve done hitherto. You’ll need to listen to the directions given through the tutorial on the game carefully, and avoid skipping any steps throughout impatiently. This will require you to be meticulous, and possibly go back and forth in the game, maybe even write things down as you go. No easy task for certain. Top team as per points means 100 for each to their grade in class. 2nd place gets 85, third gets 75, the rest get 50. Also, there will be a 225 bonus for the individual student with the most points. Playing the game itself as an individual, however, is where the mother-load of points can be found. Completed missions that you passed will result in 100 points per mission. There are 15 missions, you do the math on what this could mean for your overall points this semester. Your points are recorded in what is my view of the game, so no need to screenshot or send me anything beyond just playing. Patience, young lads and lasses, as this game will require it.

 

 

To complete:

1) Logon to the Gen I Revolution game.

2) Play the game as a team, solving the missions as best you can.

3) Accumulate as many points as possible.

Yeah, you’re all over it right now, but will you maintain? Yes! And ye shall be rewarded with points! A large part of the overall calculation of your score is measured through engagement. The game measures your percent of engagement through your checks of emails and paying bills. Pretty simple, and so far so good for all y’all. Let’s keep it up. The points will be awarded as such:

October 24th- If you’re at 100% engagement- 75 points.

November 7th- If you’re at 100% engagement- yet another 75 points.

December 5th- If you’re at 100%  engagement- yet another 75 points.

But don’t fret- let’s say you find life overwhelms and you’re incapable of maintaining the 100%. Points still can be awarded with lesser percents, but nothing less than 90% engagement. If you can keep it above 90%, but fall short of the 100%, you’ll still receive 50 points per target date.

Colorado by law needs to have a ‘balanced’ budget, in other words the amount the state cannot be more than 4% more than what it takes in. Some legislators have felt handcuffed by this state law, and now it’s your turn to feel the pinch. Go to this website: coloradobackseatbudgeter

Try to lower taxes, balance the budget, and trigger no “constitutional warnings”. No small task for a legislator that represents a district that wants taxes to be lowered. When complete, write a one-paragraph, 50-100 word Pages Document detailing what you tried and how it failed/succeeded, followed by how you feel about our laws involving the raising of taxes and spending on education.

To complete:

1. Go to backseatbudgeter.com

2. Play around with the budget wheels, trying to raise taxes, eliminate programs, put more money in places that have less, etc… Discover what happens for you, which then will also be what is the legislators’ problem.

3. Open Pages and write a 50-100 word reflection on what your impression of TABOR and the taxation/spending laws of Colorado are, and how the money is spent here.

4. Email me said document, ensuring your name and backseatbudgeter are in the subject line of the email.