Please consider the questions about "artificial instruction," the timeline about real/virtual war at a distance offered below, and read Ender's Game free online or get the book in preparation for joining us Jan 27 and Feb 10.
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QUESTIONS about "Artificial Instruction" please consider:
- What are the characteristics of a “teacherless” course essential to convince the students who take it that they have a teacher? Why do/don't you care?
- When young people are trained to make video-game-like decisions that result in real explosions, what are the educational implications? Why do/don't you care?
Please join us for 2 free online discussions about Ender's Game and Ender's Test
1. Ender's Game (short story and book) in the next free online FridayLive! session January 27, 2012 2pm ET - read story free online or order book from Amazon
2. Ender's Test (procedure for distinguishing between "real" and artificial courses) on February 10, 2012 at 3:15pm ET
Keep checking tlt.gs/EndersGameTest as we continue to prepare this webpage for these 2 online events. You can also get more info and register for the sessions at tlt.gs/frlv.
Keep checking tlt.gs/EndersGameTest as we continue to prepare this webpage for these 2 online events. You can also get more info and register for the sessions at tlt.gs/frlv.
TIMELINE
Also, consider this highly abbreviated and selective timeline of observations and stories about real/virtual war at a distance:
- 1945 "The next war may be fought by airplanes with no men in them at all . . " - Gen Hap Arnold, USAAF – US Army Air Forces, 1945 - quoted in many sources without citation, e.g., http://publicintelligence.net/usaf-drones-in-irregular-warfare/
- 1964 Dr. Strangelove movie "...if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a 'Doomsday Machine' which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth." from plot summary Written by Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com> for "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" on IMDb website http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/plotsummary
- 1977 Ender's Game Short Story by Orson Scott Card Plot summary on author's website first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, August 1977
- 1983 War Games movie. Plot summary: "A young computer whizz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3. Can he convince the computer he wanted to play a game and not the real thing ?" Written by Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com> Full plot summary written by Gene Chin (Huggo) for IMDb website http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/
- 1985 Ender's Game Novel, Orson Scott Card, Plot summary on author's website order book A Tor Book - Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.
- 2011 "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" TV series episode in "The Good Wife"
- 2011 "Air Force Drone Operators Report High Levels of Stress,... the operators’ jobs: watching hours of close-up video of people killed in drone strikes. After a strike, operators assess the damage, and unlike fighter pilots who fly thousands of feet above their targets, drone operators can see in vivid detail what they have destroyed [many thousands of miles away on another continent]. " - "Air Force Drone Operators Report High Levels of Stress," by Elisabeth Bumiller, December 18, 2011 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/world/asia/air-force-drone-operators-show-high-levels-of-stress.html
AWARDS FOR ENDER'S GAME
YALSA Outstanding Books for the College Bound.Yalsa Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults.
Hugo Best Novel winner, 1986.
Nebula award, novel, 1985.
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