Digital Fabrication in Education – Empowering Math Classes with an Active and Meaningful Approach Introduction When it comes to the learning process of Mathematics, studies show that different factors lead students to have poor performance in the subject. Ziegler & Loos (2017) indicate that the difficulty that students have in their learning is related to… Read more »
Tag: Seymour Papert
Making means head and heart. Not just hands.
Can you recall the secret thrills of your childhood? The deep fascinations that enraptured you across worlds? We might call them obsessions, fixations, or phases — as doomed to end as the passing of seasons — for even as much as I was filling my room and imagination with dinosaurs, I never became a paleontologist…. Read more »
Stop Waiting to Love Learning Again – Reflections on “The Gears of My Childhood”
I’ve been a little worried lately. Not about the world, or politics, or COVID – well yes, of course about those things, but lately I’ve been mostly worried that I’ve forgotten how to teach. I feel out of practice and out of touch. Everyone in education is a bit out of practice, having spent a… Read more »
Gears and fears – A reflection on Seymour Papert’s essay ‘The Gears of my Childhood’
When reading Papert’s essay I was fascinated by the way that Papert creates the link between his earliest childhood memories to his experience of learning and how these experiences shaped the way he would forever interpret the world around him. In the article he describes how his love of automobiles helped him to give context… Read more »
Motivation – My correlation with Seymour Papert’s reflections
These are my thoughts on the essay “The Gears of my Childhood” by Seymour Papert. There is an acient story about a young man named David, who defeated the mighty giant Goliath in an epic battle. Maybe you know this story well or maybe you have only heard about it. David was small, had no… Read more »