March 31, 2014
“So, too, the mega-change in education that will undoubtedly come in the next few decades will not be a “reform” in the... Read More
March 6, 2014
“I noticed that a lot of the discussion of computers was dominated by questions like, just to take one example, when they... Read More
March 4, 2014 – We’re back!
“Once upon a time information was handled orally, writing extended what could be done orally and printing went further. The computer is... Read More
May 24, 2012
“Skeptics of the possibility of change in schools often recall that it is now a hundred years since the American philosopher and... Read More
May 9, 2012 (Rare Discoveries Week)
“…for example, Larry Cuban, the hypercritic, the king of the criticism of computers – recently, and again, in an interview with the... Read More
March 28, 2012
“I do not suppose that all children were ever given full access to the ideas of any society. But at least in... Read More
February 2, 2012
“If I think in terms of my three books on this subject, when Mindstorms was written there were barely any computers in... Read More
November 28, 2011
“I end by mentioning two less specific “firsts” with which “Teaching Children Thinking” should be credited. At that time the concept of... Read More
November 14, 2011
“Although printed in 1970, “Teaching Children Thinking” was conceived in 1968 and bears the signs of the heady atmosphere of that time.... Read More
November 8, 2011
“Ten years before T.H.E. Journal was launched [1972], Logo was designed as a programming language that could be accessible to children. The... Read More