Tyack

April 18, 2012

1990s, Constructionism, Learning, School Reform, Teaching, uncategorized / gary

“I have noted elsewhere (Papert, 1996b), that School’s math can be characterized by the fact that its typical act is making marks on paper. Explorations in the Space of Mathematics Education develops this idea by imagining an alternative mathematical education in which the typical activity begins with and consists of creating, modifying, or controlling dynamic […]

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February 23, 2011

1990s, Computers, Epistemology, Logo, School Reform, Teaching, uncategorized / gary

“Unless I am missing Tyack and Cuban’s point, this account is in the spirit of Tinkering Towards Utopia and in fact, exemplifies one of the major principles in its presentation of the generic life-cycle of reforms: The reform sets out to change School but in the end School changes the reform. One may at first

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