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
April 19, 2012
“Why then should computers in schools be confined to computing the sum of the squares of the first twenty odd numbers and... 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
June 2, 2011
“The eighth big idea is we are entering a digital world where knowing about digital technology is as important as reading and... Read More
June 1, 2011
“The seventh big idea is do unto ourselves what we do unto our students. We are learning all the time. We have... Read More
May 31, 2011
“The sixth big idea is the biggest of all: you can’t get it right without getting it wrong. Nothing important works the... Read More