September 13, 2011
There won’t be schools in the future…. I think the computer will blow up the school. That is, the school defined as... Read More
September 12, 2011
“I think it’s better to put 100 computers in one percent of the schools than one computer in 100 percent of the... Read More
May 18, 2011
“No two people follow the same path of learnings, discoveries, and revelations. You learn in the deepest way when something happens that... Read More
April 19, 2011
“What an individual can learn, and how he learns it, depends on what models he has available. This raises, recursively, the question... Read More
April 13, 2011
“Just as pendulums, paints, clay, and so forth, can be “messed around with,” so can computers. Many people associate computers with a... Read More
April 4, 2011
Educators should “start clearing their heads about notions that computers are expensive. Every child should have a computer like an Apple II.”... Read More
March 30, 2011
”Why is it that children have to do 98,000 repetitions of this?” Mr. Papert said, pointing to an addition problem. “One reason... Read More
March 29, 2011
“We have described what we consider to be an example of truly educational computing — active, exploratory, student-directed learning involving the use... Read More
March 24, 2011
“Much of what the child learns we don’t even notice.” Papert, S. (1984). Computer as Mudpie. Intelligent Schoolhouse: Readings on Computers and... Read More
March 23, 2011
“Precisely these criticisms have often been made by humanists. If they have failed to put schools right what can a “technologist” do?... Read More