constructionism Mindstorms

March 16, 2011

1980s, Computers, Constructionism, Epistemology, Learning, School Reform, Teaching, uncategorized / gary

“I am talking about a revolution in ideas that is no more reducible to technologies than physics and molecular biology are reducible to the technological tools used in the laboratories or poetry to the printing press. In my vision, technology has two roles. One is heuristic: The computer presence has catalyzed the emergence of ideas. […]

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March 15, 2011

1980s, Computers, Constructionism, Learning, School Reform, Science, Teaching, uncategorized / gary

“For the reformists, the computer will not abolish schools but will serve them. The computer is seen as an engine that can be harnessed to existing structures in order to solve, in local and incremental measures, the problems that face schools as they exist today. The reformist is no more inclined than the revolutionary to

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