Watch this FabLearn Fellow webinar with special guest Gary Stager. Gary spoke on the topic of “Constructionism and Teaching.” We covered a lot of ground in this webinar including: constructivism, Seymour Papert, changing teaching practices, what makes a good project, use of kits, documentation, making as more than just “hands-on,” makerspaces vs. classroom integrated making experiences, physical vs. digital making, and much more.
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Books and articles by Seymour Papert
- Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas – Constructionism explained as the way people naturally learn. In it, Papert explores how learning to program computers and gain mastery over them can influence how children learn everything else.
- The Children’s Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer – Looking back on the first decade of computers in schools and what lies ahead.
- The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap – How parents can understand computers as thinking and learning partners for their children.
- Constructionism vs. Instructionism by Seymour Papert (article)
- What’s the Big Idea? Toward a pedagogy of idea power by Seymour Papert – One of Papert’s strongest and most recent papers.
Books by Gary Stager (and Sylvia Martinez)
Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
This webinar will also be available as part of the FabLearn podcast series Meaningful Making at meaningfulmaking.