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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 makes you fall in love with a particular piece of knowledge.” Papert, S. (1987) “MicroWorlds: Transforming Education.” In Lawler, R. Artificial Intelligence and Education: Volume One – learning environments and tutoring systems. Norwood,

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May 4, 2011

Papert wrote the following in the second issue of Wired Magazine back in 1993! “I see then a pattern of intellectual development that I shall oversimplify by casting it in three distinct phases. The first phase is one of universally successful learning. All children show a passion for interactive exploration of their immediate world. The

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April 28, 2011

“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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April 26, 2011

“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. Most digital technologies — processors and chips, for example — are not about information at all. They are constructional medium…we make things from them.

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