That was my thought when I first saw what Seymour Papert was doing with
children and LOGO in the 60s. I was thinking about going back into Molecular
Biology, but Seymour showed that computers could *really* be important as
unique vehicles for teaching "powerful ideas" and "powerful thinking" to young
children -- this was like a light going on.
There is more on this at http://www.vpri.org/html/writings.php under the
category of "sorted by: Teaching and Learning Powerful Ideas"
Cheers,
Alan
>________________________________
>From: Simon Forman <[email protected]>
>To: Fundamentals of New Computing <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2011 10:33 PM
>Subject: Re: [fonc] Physics and Types
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>Oh awesome! Thank you both. That's got to be one of the single most
>profound uses of computers I've ever run across.
>
>Warm regards,
>~Simon
>
>On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Here's the link to the paper
>> http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2005001_learning.pdf
>> Cheers,
>> Alan
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Martin McClure <[email protected]>
>> To: Fundamentals of New Computing <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2011 3:46 PM
>> Subject: Re: [fonc] Physics and Types
>>
>> On 08/03/2011 08:10 PM, Simon Forman wrote:
>>
>>> On the other hand, there's a story (I believe it's in one of the VPRI
>>> documents but I couldn't locate it just now) about children using
>>> their machines to take pictures of a falling object and then analyzing
>>> the pictures and deducing for themselves the constant-acceleration
>>> rule for gravity.
>>
>> IIRC, this is one of the things on the Squeakers DVD.
>> http://squeakland.org/resources/audioVisual/#cat547
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -Martin
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