The Children's Machine
Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer
Published on 29. April 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-465-01063-9 (ISBN)
Description
In his classsic book, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and powerful Ideas , Seymour Papert set out a vision of how computers could change school. In The Children's Machine he now looks back over a decade during which American schools acquired more than three million computers and assesses progress and resistance to progress.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
317 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-465-01063-9 (9780465010639)
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Person
Seymour Papert holds the Lego Chair for Learning Research at MIT. He is the author of Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas.
Content
* Yearners and Schoolers * Personal Thinking * School: Change and Resistance to Change * Teachers * A World for Learning * An Anthology of Learning Stories * Instructionism versus Constructionism * Computerists * Yearners and Schoolers * Cybernetics * What can be done?