------------Papert-------ch1 Computers and Computer Cultures-------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 3, 2011
"In most contemporary educational situations where children come into contact with computers the computer is used t... tl.gd/egr81o
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 3, 2011
"'Sesame Street' [or Kahn Academy] might offer better and more engaging explanations than a child can get from pare... tl.gd/egrbr9
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 3, 2011
"If a person conceives of children's intellectual development (or for that matter, moral or social development) as ... tl.gd/egrnmk
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 3, 2011
"What is happening now is an empirical question. What can happen is a technical question. But what will happen is a... tl.gd/egrufq
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 3, 2011
"I see Piaget as the theorist of learning without curriculum and the theorist of the kind of learning that happens ... tl.gd/egs392
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 3, 2011
"Very few with the imagination, creativity, and drive to make new inventions enter the field [of education]. Most o... tl.gd/egscpo
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 3, 2011
----------Papert--------Ch2 Mathophobia: The Fear of Learning--------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 6, 2011
"Children begin their lives as eager and competent learners. They have to learn to have trouble with learning in ge... tl.gd/eii9aq
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 6, 2011
"If people believe firmly enough that they cannot do math, they will usually succeed in preventing themselves from ... tl.gd/eiie4m
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 6, 2011
"Everything is set up for children to attribute their first unsuccessful or unpleasant learning experiences to thei... tl.gd/eiif4s
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 6, 2011
"Imagine that children were forced to spend an hour a day drawing dance steps on squared paper and had to pass test... tl.gd/eiihcn
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 6, 2011
"As long as we insist on making children learn arithmetic by the standard route, we will continue to 'prove' by obj... tl.gd/eiinhp
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 6, 2011
"the infant does not have periods set aside for 'learning talking.'" Papert
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 6, 2011
"Children perceive the school's rhetoric about mathematics as double talk. In order to remedy the situation we must... tl.gd/eiiuou
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 6, 2011
---------Papert--------Ch3 Turtle Geometry: A Mathematics Made for Learning--------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 10, 2011
"Typically in math class, a child's reaction to a wrong answer is to try to forget it as fast as possible. But in t... tl.gd/el01av
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 10, 2011
"Arithmetic is a bad introductory domain for learning heuristic thinking." Papert
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 10, 2011
"what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is... tl.gd/el01u6
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 10, 2011
-----------Papert--------Ch4 Languages for Computers and for People-----------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 10, 2011
"No knowledge is entirely reducible to words, and no knowledge is entirely ineffable." Papert
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 10, 2011
"School teaches that errors are bad; the last thing one wants to do is to pore over them, dwell on them, or think about them." Papert
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 10, 2011
"In the LOGO environment, children learn that the teacher too is a learner, and that everyone learns from mistakes." Papert
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 10, 2011
"Discovery cannot be a setup; invention cannot be scheduled." Papert
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 10, 2011
--------Papert-------Ch 5 Microworlds: Incubators for knowledge------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 12, 2011
"the child absorbs the new into the old in a process that Piaget calls assimilation, and the child constructs his k... tl.gd/em5742
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 12, 2011
"The powerful ideas and the intellectual aesthetic of physics is lost in the perpetual learning of 'prerequisites.'" Papert
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 12, 2011
"All of us learn by constructing, exploring, and theory building, but most of the theory building on which we cut o... tl.gd/em5nsi
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 12, 2011
"Piaget has shown that children hold false theories as a necessary part of the process of learning." Papert
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 12, 2011
"We are in fact in danger of mystifying children by placing them in an environment of sophisticated technology whos... tl.gd/el094g
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 10, 2011
"Educators distort Piaget's message by seeing his contribution as revealing that children hold false beliefs, which... tl.gd/em5qos
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 12, 2011
---------Papert--------Ch 6 Powerful Ideas in Mind-Size Bites------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 13, 2011
---------Papert--------Ch 6 Powerful Ideas in Mind-Size Bites------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 13, 2011
"Skills and the discrete facts are easy to give out in controlled doses. They are also easier to measure. And it is... tl.gd/emnlps
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 13, 2011
"the actual job of getting to know an idea or a person cannot be done by a third party. Everyone must acquire skill... tl.gd/emnoa2
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 13, 2011
"When computers are used to cure the immediate symptom of poor scores in arithmetic, they reinforce habits of disso... tl.gd/emnr63
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 13, 2011
"You can't learn bread-and-butter skills if you come to them with fear and anticipation of hating them." Papert
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 13, 2011
"To suggest that one must give up an old method to adopt a new one implies a theory of human psychology that strike... tl.gd/emo7u5
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 13, 2011
"true commuter literacy is not knowing how to make use of computers and computational ideas. It is knowing when it ... tl.gd/emo8jq
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 13, 2011
--------Papert--------Ch7 Logo's Roots: Piaget and AI----------------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 18, 2011
"to make a machine that can be instructed in natural language, it is necessary to probe deeply into the nature of l... tl.gd/eplo8p
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 18, 2011
"Piaget's epistemology is concerned not with the validity of knowledge but with its origin and growth." Papert
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 18, 2011
"the importance of studying the structure of knowledge is not just to better understand the knowledge itself, but t... tl.gd/epm44g
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 18, 2011
"More often than we realize, we solve problems by 'almost knowing the answer' already." Papert
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 18, 2011
"Some researchers try to make programs be intelligent by giving them such quantities of knowledge that the greater ... tl.gd/epm8f1
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 18, 2011
"The important question is not whether the brain or the computer is discrete but whether knowledge is modularizable." Papert
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 18, 2011
"in the most fundamental sense, we, as learners, are all bricoleurs." Papert
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 18, 2011
Papert talks about a "future," presumably now, where children programming computers is commonplace. What happened?
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 18, 2011
Do we have graphical interfaces such as Windows & Mac OS to blame for the decline of this literacy among computer users?
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 18, 2011
Or, are do we broaden our definition of what programming is? Either way, I don't see most kids using computers the way Papert imagined.
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 18, 2011
--------Papert-------Ch8 Images of the Learning Society------------------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 19, 2011
"The suggestion that there might come a day when schools no longer exist elicits strong response from many people. ... tl.gd/eq89j9
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 19, 2011
"Powerful new social forms must have their roots in the culture, not be the creatures of bureaucrats." Papert
— anderscj (@anderscj) December 19, 2011
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