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Seymour Papert Would Like a Word with Ron DeSantis 33 years ago

1990s, Computers, Constructionism, Epistemology, Learning, Project-based learning, Teaching / gary

Perestroika and Epistemological Politics Keynote address at the World Conference on Computers in Education at Darling Harbor, Sydney, Australia July 1990 By Seymour Papert[*] MIT Media Laboratory 20 Ames Street, E15-313 Cambridge, MA 02139 During the week of the conference you have been immersed in exciting and focused discussions about actual uses of computers in real educational settings. […]

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June 26, 2017

1 Comment / 2000s, Computers, Project-based learning, School Reform, Teaching, uncategorized / gary

Seymour Papert: One of the negative … one of the big problems about computers in Maine and this is a continuing problem, we got … say we are assimilated into this local state group that it was The Governor’s Initiative. Okay, so the computers contract is now signed with Apple to provide computers starting seventh

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August 16, 2012

1990s, Computers, Constructionism, Learning, School Reform, Teaching, uncategorized / gary

“Information technology is the wrong name, and leads to its misuse. The fact that you can get a lot of information out of the Net is NOT merely what it’s about.” Moore, A. (1998) Seymour Papert quoted in archived article, Targets Hit, Targets Missed — Seymour Papert, chronicling his speech at the October 1998 Camden

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May 31, 2012

1990s, Computers, Constructionism, Epistemology, Learning, School Reform, Teaching, uncategorized / gary

“I would suggest that one reason education reform has not worked is that it almost always treats these dimensions as separate and tries to reform one or another–the choice depending on who is doing the reforming. Curriculum reformers try to put new curriculum in an otherwise unchanged system but ignore the fact that the old

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May 2, 2011

1990s, Computers, Constructionism, Learning, School Reform, Science, Teaching, uncategorized / gary

“By asking questions such as: “What’s the best way to teach science,” there’s an implication that there’s a single entity that can make that decision. It’s not like that, maybe never was.” Moore, A. (1998) Seymour Papert quoted in archived article, Targets Hit, Targets Missed — Seymour Papert, chronicling his speech at the October 1998

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April 28, 2011

1990s, Constructionism, Learning, Project-based learning, School Reform, Science, Teaching, uncategorized / gary

“It [education] is analogous to a market-driven economy. Like Darwinian evolution, numerous interplays allow many results to organically emerge. How do we intervene in this divergent, organic, apparently chaotic system? As in a “free market” the government doesn’t tell us how many nails to produce, but it does intervene in the economy; the FDA doesn’t

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