Let students program the computer not the computer program the students…

Seymour Papert in his book Mindstorms, reminds us that the greatest benefit of integrating computers in the classroom is NOT as a tool for standardized assessment, repetitive skill reinforcement or as Papert put it,  “the computer programming the child”. Rather, he argued,  “The child programs the computer. And in teaching the computer how to think, children embark on an exploration about how they think themselves”.

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