Ender's Test: Is Your Course a Pizza? Who needs teachers? Invitations Jan27 & Feb10 tlt.gs/EndersGameTest TLTGroup

Ender's Test of Artificial Instruction  

Which is real? artificial?  See Magritte!

[with a respectful good-humored apology to admirers of Alan Turing who developed the Turing test of artificial intelligence as "... a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour" in 1950 - from Wikipedia 20120124]

I. INVITATION JAN 27, 2012

Even if you haven’t read “Ender’s Game” the short story or novel, and you would like to be prepared for the Feb 10 session about Ender's Test, please join us for a discussion Ender's Game:  January 27, 2012 2PM ET Free Online Fridaylive! 

II.  INVITATION FEB 10, 2012

You are invited to a presentation/discussion simultaneously onsite and online Friday, Feb 10, 3:15PM ET  

• Face-to-Face Session at Lilly Greensboro Conference [registration, including fee, required]
• Free FridayLive! Webinar - Note change for this event only to 3:15PM ET Feb 10, instead of usual weekly TLT Group FridayLive! start time of 2pm ET 

III. MORE INFO - WORKING DRAFT

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 online sessions at tlt.gs/frlv.

QUESTIONS about "Artificial Instruction" that we will discuss Feb 10:

• What is a course?  What are course materials, course resources, course plans, course designs, course activities, course assignments?  Who owns what?
• What is independent learning?
• What kinds of learners do not need a teacher for what kinds of learning?
• 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?

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