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 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 22, 2014
“The central question for educators is whether schools of the future will go on teaching the same curriculum, using computers to do... Read More
April 1, 2014
Curator’s Note: Thanks to the Internet Archive, I found this long-lost article by Dr. Papert written for the March 1981 issue Creative... Read More
March 25, 2014
“From the perspective of the 1990s, it appears bizarre or downright reactionary that Mindstorms makes no reference to gender or multiculturalism. I... Read More
March 24, 2014
“An examination of computer use in schools today reveals that students’ interactions with computers are largely teacher-directed, workbook-oriented, for limited periods of... Read More
March 3, 2014 – We’re back!
“Certain notions of mathematics are not sufficiently embedded in the culture for children to learn in their natural way, so they come... Read More
June 11, 2012
“Logo is much like a natural language such as English. Baby talk allows the child an easy way to grab onto and... Read More