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Michael Roberts's List: Seymour Papert
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Not an epistemology but “a theory of learning and a strategy for education” (Kafai & Resnick, 1996, p. 1).
· Knowledge is actively constructed
· Learning to learn
· Focuses on the variance of individual and the environment
· Dynamics of change
· Engagement – Learning occurs through interaction and reflection
· Learners can create meaning by building artifacts
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And Constructionism means "Giving children good things to do so that they can learn by doing much better than they could before." Now, I think that the new technologies are very, very rich in providing new things for children to do so that they can learn mathematics as part of something real.
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And this is what we're trying to do: find ways in which the technology enables children to use knowledge, mathematical knowledge and other knowledge, not just store it in their heads so that twelve years later it's going to be good for them. Nobody can learn well like that; it's a terrible way of learning. We all like to learn so that we can use what we've learned, and that's what we're trying to do with these children
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Feb 09, 12
Seymour Papert and constructivism, and the use of technology in education.
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children using computers as instruments for learning and for enhancing creativity
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Today Papert is considered the world's foremost expert on how technology can provide new ways to learn
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