Seymour Papert 1983

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended to anyone unfamiliar with Papert as a glimpse of his vision for computers in education.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Cynthia Solomon

Topic

computers in education

Format

lecture

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2017

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From the original HN conversations

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• If you haven't been exposed to Papert - check out some of his old videos from the 70s and 80s. [VIDEO] - One really powerful idea he had was ensuring that we stay "somatic" with our computer instruction - playing with abstract concepts in a …

• [LINK] [LINK] > I think you have it backwards. It's the new vision of computers (walled gardens, all the interesting logic hidden away in data centers, content consumption appliances instead of real computers) that is pale and sickly. Yes, these new trends are worrisome. But …

• There's a somewhat relevant concept in Seymour Papert's book Mindstorms. Papert talks about "body-syntonicity" where the act of drawing a circle on the computer screen with LOGO can be seen as bridging children’s sense and knowledge about their own bodies to something abstract. Young children …