I just don’t have time to read every book that comes my way, but I’d like to do my part to expose them to as many eyeballs as I can. So, from time to time, I’ll post a Spotlight to lend a hand. If SF novellas filled with dystopian tech are up your alley, you should jump on it.
Book Details:
Book Title: The Adventures of Tevin and Ryn – Part 1 by J. Spackman
Release date: June 25, 2021
Format: Kindle
Length: 66 pages
Book Blurb:
The Adventures of Tevin and Ryn is a series of fast-moving short novels of a futuristic world filled with dystopian technology. In Part 1, Tevin, a teenage orphan and young first-year professor, learns that Bliss Island has a dark side run by Damian, an evil tycoon. Ryn, pretending to be his student assistant at the university, joins him on many adventures that take them across Bliss Island and the neighboring Ghost Island. Throughout the series, they find themselves in situations where many friendships are formed and tested, love blossoms, mysteries are solved, family secrets are revealed, sporting events are hacked, revolutions are started, children are rescued, treasure is found and lost, and a new society is born of an ancient legend.
About the Author:
Back in 2010, I met with Dr. Stephen Yanchar in the Instructional Pyschology & Technology department of Brigham Young University to talk about my dissertation. The major thought rattling around inside my head centered on treating students like humans with agency rather than like programmable computers or trainable animals. If we were to treat students as humans with agency, then what kind of learning opportunities would be ideal? Dr. Yanchar and I published “Learning as Embodied Familiarization” as our learning theory.
Then I finished my dissertation “Exploring the Narrative-Oriented Qualities of the Learner’s Encounter with Unfamiliarity” and received my PhD.
Following my dissertation, I decided to begin work on creating an example of the type of learning opportunities I initially set out to find where students were treated as humans with agency. In my spare time, that example turned into a six-book series of fast-moving short novels about the adventures of Tevin and Ryn. The main characters exemplify learning as embodied familiarzation and also explore narrative or storytelling as the medium.
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