Ender's Week 1: Introduction

Join the #Metagame Book Club as we look at one of the premiere dystopian novels of the 20th century, Ender’s Game.

Over the course of the next 5 weeks, we will be getting to know Ender Wiggin the young military genius as he begins his training. Let’s dive into the way VR, AR, and games were used to train soldiers in this book which was written in 1985 and what is being used now...and did the real life military get some of their ideas from this book.

Week 1 Overview

This week provides a brief intro to the book, book club, and an overview of some of the many topics addressed in the book. The dystopian worldview, fake news and manipulation, nationalism and of course their education system - we will be discussing all of these! It's bound to get interesting. For instance, is Battle School more Kolb's Experiential Cycle or a Montessori approach?

Readings 

By Next Wednesday: Introduction through Chapter 3 

Discussions

We'll be putting discussion questions on reddit. What better place that reddit to ask "what do you think or what if?" We do have a subreddit called ENDER4EDU Please join the subreddit this week and post 

If you are new to reddit, here's some additional information for our use and a quick video on getting to our subreddit in the video below. 

Our first Google Hangout will be on Wednesday May 3 at 9 pm ET/7 pm MT.

Click on this link https://youtu.be/mypfh2yoMFww to attend or on the embedded video below.