"The medieval schoolman, following the Romans, made logic the earliest of a boy's studies after grammar, as being very easy. So it was as they understood it.(…), as soon as a boy was perfect in the syllogistic procedure, his intellectual kit of tools was held to be complete." Charles Sanders Peirce. "The Fixation of Belief ".Popular Science Monthly 12 (November 1877)
> El 3 abr 2016, a las 17:58, Tayssir John Gabbour <t...@pentaside.org> > escribió: > > BTW, I don’t recall Logo very well, but the Cubetto kickstarter game appears > highly similar to Robot Turtles boardgame: > http://www.thinkfun.com/robot-turtles/ > <http://www.thinkfun.com/robot-turtles/> > > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Joe Gorse <jhgo...@gmail.com > <mailto:jhgo...@gmail.com>> wrote: > In the 1993 Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas, by Seymour > Papert, he says that there are two factors which determine the rate of > learning: > Cultural references > Affect (love) for the topic > Where cultural references is the number of relatable, already familiar, > concepts. For example, Eskimos have more than 300 words for types of snow, so > new things which can be usefully associated with these concepts of snow may > be learned more quickly by Eskimos. > > And affect, or love, is the desire of the student to learn it. As of the > writing of the book in 1993, there was little data to go along with this > notion, so Papert speculated for a moment, reflecting on its origin's in > Piaget's work. Intuitively I know this to be true in the sense that all > subjects are interesting and compelling with the right guide (teacher). > > Good luck! =) > > Cheers, > Joe Gorse > > P.S. Disclaimer: it has been a while since I read the book, so for those of > you who remember it more clearly forgive my simplistic recollection. > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrie...@gmail.com > <mailto:casey.obrie...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Sorry if this is a little off topic. > > I have a dear friend with a 4-year old. He's a clever little beggar. I'd like > to put him onto Scratch, but I worry that procedural epistemology might be a > lot to think about at 4. > > I don't really know anything about how kid's brains develop. I guessed that a > few people here would know a lot about that sort of thing. Bonus points (as > always) if you can point me at some research. > > Anyway is 4 too soon? > > --Casey Ransberger > > _______________________________________________ > Fonc mailing list > Fonc@mailman.vpri.org <mailto:Fonc@mailman.vpri.org> > http://mailman.vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc_mailman.vpri.org > <http://mailman.vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc_mailman.vpri.org> > > > > > -- > Joe Gorse > > C: 440-552-0730 <> > LI: Joe Gorse <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joe-gorse/7/12/397> > _______________________________________________ > Fonc mailing list > Fonc@mailman.vpri.org <mailto:Fonc@mailman.vpri.org> > http://mailman.vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc_mailman.vpri.org > <http://mailman.vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc_mailman.vpri.org> > > > _______________________________________________ > Fonc mailing list > Fonc@mailman.vpri.org > http://mailman.vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc_mailman.vpri.org
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