The Child Learner as Epistemologist
IN MOST contemporary educational situations where children come into contact with computers the computer is used to put children through their paces, to provide exercises of an appropriate level of difficulty, to provide feedback, and to dispense information. The computer programming the child. In the LOGO environment the relationship is reversed: The child, even at preschool ages, is in control: The child programs the computer. And in teaching the computer how to think, children embark on an exploration about how they themselves think. The experience can be heady: Thinking about thinking turns the child into an epistemologist, an experience not even shared by most adults.
Seymour A. Papert, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas (1980)
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Children should program computers, not computers programming children.
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contemporary educational situations, appropriate level, preschool ages, LOGO environment, children, child, computers, paces, epistemologist, experience, difficulty, exercises
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feedback, contact, information, exploration, relationship, control, children.