Seymour Papert (circa late 1990s)
And helping children learn, not on just teaching. Now, I’ve coined a phrase for this, which I wrote in this piece of paper. Constructionism and instructionism are names for two approaches to educational innovation. Instructionism is the theory that says, to get better education, we must improve instruction.
And if we’re gonna use computers, we’ll make the computers do the instruction. And that leads into the whole idea of computer aided instruction. Well, teaching is important, but learning is much more important. And Constructionism means giving children good things to do so that they can learn by doing much better than they could before.
Now I think that the new technologies are very rich in providing new things for children to do so that they can learn mathematics as part of something real.