From the Preface of "The Children's Machine"
The book “The Children’s Machine” was written by Dr. Seymour Papert in 1993. And while I was only a senior at Hillsdale High School at the time, it is interesting that I have grown up with the technology around the computer has developed (for example, the Internet) and yet teachers still struggle with how to use the computer with their students. It will be interesting as I read this book to see if ideas written in 1993 apply to education technology today.
Dr. Papert also notes in his preface and acknowledgements a list of educational and technology philosophers as his mentors on this work. Philosophers like Mitchel Resnick, Brian Silverman, Carol Sperry, Alan Kay, Sherry Turkle, Paulo Freire, and Jean Piaget. So, it leads me to believe that this work is steeped not in the glitz of the computer, but instead core education and technology theory.
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