Blogs about: Papert
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The Children’s Machine – Chapter 10
I guess my favorite thing about Papert is that he challenges the way we think about education. In this chapter, there were several things that kind of relate to politics that I enjoyed reading…… more →
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EIR On Tony Blair, the Queen, and the Modern British Empire
wrote 1 week ago: 14May (LPAC) Harley Schlanger hosts Executive Intelligence Review’s LaRouche Show, Saturday Ma … more →
Meet your maker #teachtheweb
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wrote 2 weeks ago: I think I’m becoming what you might call a “webpie”. That is, like a magpie I … more →
Fence me in...
wrote 2 months ago: While those of us in the U.S. await a mesh network, BLDG BLOG reminds us that back at the tur … more →
Objects, Making, Maker Faires and Learning
wrote 2 months ago: In my own and others’ exploration of ‘gears of childhood‘, we considered how and w … more →
Gears of THEIR childhoods: kindergarten toys and the success of three famous architects
wrote 2 months ago: Buckminster Fuller in later life After writing about the Gears of My (own) Childhood, I remembered r … more →
Papert Chapters 3 and 4
wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 3: “These examples show how the continuity and the power principle make Turtle geometr … more →
Gears of my childhood
wrote 3 months ago: This is my personal response to Seymour Papert’s essay “Gears of My Childhood”. It took me a while t … more →
Is Making Learning? Considerations as education embraces the Maker Movement
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wrote 3 months ago: Crossed posted from Empathetics.org __ Of late, folks in my corner of the educational world have bee … more →
Questions on Mindstorms
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wrote 3 months ago: Really quickly, just so I have a record of what I’m wondering after finishing Mindstorms: What … more →
Is Making Learning? Considerations as education embraces the Maker Movement
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wrote 3 months ago: Of late, folks in my corner of the educational world have been jazzed about the intersections of mak … more →
Learning through Making
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wrote 4 months ago: How should we learn? What is the best way to teach a child? These are questions that many intellectu … more →
Sharing knowledge and learning collaboratively at schools
wrote 4 months ago: (This article was written for a college magazine.) We have a vision for a better society in which th … more →
On Division of Education
wrote 6 months ago: ‘Consider how we design our educational programs. We take the major subjects apart and reduce … more →
Ethiopian Tablet Hoopla - Take a Deep Breath
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wrote 6 months ago: The OLPC initiative in Ethiopia is getting some traction in ed tech circles, and I came across a blo … more →
Some concepts
wrote 9 months ago: Conceptualisation of exercises Opening Exercise – Fossil or Artefact This exercise can … more →
Learning is about the failure and struggle, not the success
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wrote 1 year ago: “It is not the result of scientific research that ennobles humans and enriches their lives, bu … more →
A parable on...
wrote 1 year ago: A Parable Once upon a time, in a far away country, there was a community that had a wonderful machin … more →
What were the gears of my childhood?
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wrote 1 year ago: The idea I reflect upon most often from Mindstorms is the one in the foreword. In it, Seymour Papert … more →
Welcome to our world
wrote 1 year ago: The hardest part was actually getting started. I was struggling to come up with a “cool … more →
