The Duke Digital Initiative (DDI) invites you to join us in exploring what we can learn about the future of teaching and learning from science fiction novels.
We’ll begin by discussing Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. Learning is a key component of the novel from free interactive educational programs used as babysitting tools to an entirely online public education system to the problem-solving and critical thinking skills necessary to solve Anorak’s Invitation.Are we on a path that will lead to systems like those described in Ready Player One? What would that mean for Duke and other higher ed institutions? Should we be excited? Worried? Both?
Date: Wednesday, May 18
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Location: Bostock Library 024
Free and open to all faculty, staff & students
RSVP by emailing ddi-requests@duke.edu. Walk-ins are welcome, but space is limited.
Snacks and drinks will be served.
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DDI is a collaboration between Duke’s Center for Instructional Technology and Office of Information Technology to explore new and emerging technologies and how they might be applied to teaching and learning.
