The Conservation of Piaget: The Computer as Grist to the Constructivist Mill
The Conservation of Piaget: The Computer as Grist to the Constructivist Mill is an overlooked academic paper written by Seymour Papert in 1988.... Read More
April 8, 2014
“Children get the knowledge they need, when they need it, from networks of friends, hot lines and, when they are old enough,... Read More
March 5, 2014
“The essence of Piaget was how much learning occurs without being planned or organized by teachers or schools. His whole point was... Read More
April 4, 2012
“I find an interesting toe-hold for the problem in which I called the playful facet–the element of tease inherent in the idea... Read More
March 8, 2012
“But insofar as it can be seen as an aspect of education, it is about something far more specific than constructivism in... Read More
October 26, 2011
“The majority of the students were in special education classes both inside the facility and in regular school. Typically, in special education... Read More
October 24, 2011
“This procedure gave a way to introduce powerful ideas such as mechanical advantage and torque not in an abstract way but in... Read More
October 5, 2011
“This praise for the concrete is not to be confused with a strategy of using it as a stepping-stone to the abstract.... Read More
September 21, 2011
“School as we set it up is tailor-made for certain personality types. I like to think of certain scales of oppositions: like... 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