August 23, 2012
“These children are engaged in something that traditional school seldom offers: serious projects that involve working on hard technical problems for many... Read More
December 1, 2011
“We do have to think also about content, we do have to think about making another kind of intellectual diet for children,... Read More
October 25, 2011
“Let’s go back to Dewey for a moment. Intellectual growth, he often told us, must be rooted in the child’s experience. But... 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
September 19, 2012
In 1990, Louise C. Orlando of Teaching and Computers, a long defunct magazine, asked Seymour Papert what most would consider a softball... Read More
September 15, 2011
“The scandal of education is that every time you teach something you deprive a child of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.”... Read More
April 18, 2011
“Once I was alerted to the concept of “hard fun” I began listening for it and heard it over and over. It... Read More