The Seeds That Seymour Sowed
Mitchel Resnick,
Medium,
Nov 07, 2020
This article is a forward to a new edition of Seymour Papert's Mindstorms and looks back at the influence of the book 40 years after its publication. And if anything was key about Papert's approach, it's this: "Seymour rejected the computer-aided instruction approach in which 'the computer is being used to program the child' and argued for an alternative approach in which 'the child programs the computer.'" This is a lesson I have always kept in mind, and as I look at the criticisms of ed tech (and especially the work of people like Audrey Watters) I think this is the form a response should take. Or as I said in my presentation last week, "it's not about the technology all the time, it's so often about critical literacy, about perception, sense of belief, it's so often about how people see things, what their environment is, what their ways of perceiving things are, how they're going to learn." Via Aaron Davis.
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