Visuals

Place all visuals for the presentation on this page for easy, one-stop access. :)

The Children's Machine:

Papert doesn't feel the current educational system is doing a good job. • "Schools need to be accepted by its participants" (Papert, p. 6) • Change in schools happens very slowly (and things aren't going well now)

Technology provides opportunities for enriched education • Variety of "intellectual styles" can be addressed with technology • Technology provides greater opportunity to pursue topics in great depth • Opportunity to study "real topics" as opposed to learning for learning sake • Knowledge is valuable when it is helpful or useful to others

Goal/Vision • School should nurture students as opposed to training for industrial era • Students should have a great voice in their education • Education should be more inter-disciplinary and less compartmentalized • More of education should be involved in making something as opposed to abstract pursuits of knowledge • We need more child-like enthusiasm for learning

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Zits comic:  StarTribune, 11/06/20









Melissa