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Author Papert, Seymour.

Title The children's machine : rethinking school in the age of the computer / Seymour Papert
Published New York, NY : BasicBooks, 1993
New York : Basic Books, [1993]
©1993

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Description xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents 1. Yearners and schoolers -- 2. Personal thinking -- 3. School: change and resistance to change -- 4. Teachers -- 5. A word for learning -- 6. An anthology of learning stories -- 7. Instructionism versus constructionism -- 8. Computerists -- 9. Cybernetics -- 10. What can be done?
Summary Papert assesses adoption of technology by schools and resistance to progress
Analysis United States
Notes 241p
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-230) and index
Notes In English
Subject Computer-assisted instruction.
Education -- Data processing.
Author Papert, Seymour.
LC no. 91059012
ISBN 0465010636 (paper)
0465018300
9780465018307