17. Ender's Game | THUNK
Channel: THUNK
Date: 2014-03-05

Ender Wiggin might be a compelling protagonist, but he's also problematic. This week, I investigate how Ender's Game can make you dumb.

-Links for the Curious-

PBS Idea Channel's video on the possible political implications of seeing Ender's Game - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHZyzvLxEpU

Professor Carol Dweck's article about how beliefs about intelligence can affect learning performance - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1838571/

Dweck gives a lecture on her findings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGvR_0mNpWM

A study demonstrating the plasticity of IQ in the teenage brain - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v479/n7371/full/nature10514.html

A truly scathing review of Ender's Game as "geek wish-fulfillment porn" - http://plover.net/~bonds/ender.html