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TEDxWalthamED

April 2017

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How I used Dungeons & Dragons to teach ethics

In this fun and nerdy talk, ethics professor Christopher Robichaud explains how he worked the key principles of Dungeons & Dragons into an ethics simulation used to train future policymakers at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

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In this fun and nerdy talk, ethics professor Christopher Robichaud explains how he worked the key principles of Dungeons & Dragons into an ethics simulation used to train future policymakers at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxWalthamED, an independent event.

Read more about TEDx.

About the speaker

Christopher Robichaud

Lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

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