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A ‘Piagetian curriculum’ is a contradiction in terms!
This is a famous statement by Seymour Papert.
View ArticlePedagogy of Idea of Power
A paper from much later Papert IBM Journal 2000 “What’s the big idea? Toward a pedagogy of idea power Here he distinguishes between the psychological (how a person is affected by a treatment) and...
View ArticleMillions of Computers for Millions of Children
Yesterday ( it should be now read “a couple of years back”)while giving a talk, I was asked this rhetorical question (not verbatim, but close): “What did you say was the sample size of your study?”...
View ArticleThe problem with what is taught in schools
Many people have written on the problem of what is taught in schools and why children don’t like what they study. One of the major issue seems to be there is no direct relevance to what children are...
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