"all successful leaders find ways to take charge of their early lives sufficiently to develop a sense of intellectual identity" Papert
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-This statement makes me think of my formative years with the Apple ][ computer. The computer saved me from a School-given sentence to spend my classtime sequestered to the resource room for my then undiagnosed disgraphic tendencies. While I would do the "computer work" assigned me in school the work I would do with the machine at home, cracking codes, modding programs like Oregon Trail, and making my own software was where I found real learning.
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"school work is done only b/c the designer of a curriculum decided that doing the work would shape the doer into a desirable form." Papertanderscj
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"A megachanged system can come into being only through a slow, organic evolution, and through a close harmony with social evolution." Papertanderscj
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"...develop a methodology for reflection about cases of successful learning and especially about one's best learning experiences." Papertanderscj
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-One of my most powerful personal learning experiences as a teacher and probably the most powerful learning experiences I helped to create involved students doing peer-teaching after a week of metacognitive reflection. This statement helps to indicate why that experience might have produced such meaningful results.
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"one of the sources of the technologists' power was the veil of esoteric mystery woven around the idea of programming." Papertanderscj
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-Which was always why as a child I found computer programming so enchanting.
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It is fun to read your reflections on the book as you are reading it! Thanks for taking us along virtually.
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