May 14, 2014
“Across the globe there is a love affair between children and the digital technologies. They love the computers, they love the phones,... Read More
May 5, 2014
“Indeed, we might summarize all these points by saying that schoolchildren have been deprived of the opportunity of actually doing mathematics in... Read More
May 2, 2014 – Bonus Content
On April, 24, 2014, the MIT Media Lab hosted a forum, “Learning from Seymour Papert,” featuring long-time friends and colleagues, Nicholas Negroponte,... Read More
May 1, 2014
“Everyone works with procedures in everyday life. Playing a game or giving directions to a lost motorist are exercises in procedural thinking.... Read More
April 29, 2014
“The relation of school children to mathematics remains deeply puzzling after more than a decade of wide-scale experiment in the classroom and... Read More
April 24, 2014
“Many children are held back in their learning because they have a model of learning in which you have either ‘got it’... Read More
April 23, 2014
“You learn in the deepest way when something happens that makes you fall in love with a particular piece of knowledge. “... Read More
April 21, 2014
“Children, of course, come into the world as very powerful, highly competent learners, and the learning they do in the first few... Read More
April 7, 2014
“In The Children’s Machine I told a learning story about how I helped a student in the “resource room”—which is where they... Read More
April 3, 2014
“I have had a lot of flack from people who read this column (and other things I have written) as advocating taking... Read More