Learning Technology: Analysis

At issue in this essay is an analysis of a number of powerful ideas reflected in the foregoing series of questions that emerge from a reading of works by John Dewey (1998), Seymour Papert (1993), Paul Berliner (1994), and Edward Tufte (2004). This diverse group of thinkers share a common interest in education, its form and function, and its impact upon human intellectual development. There is little doubt that John Dewey (1998) inspired many later educators to consider the societal as well as intellectual purposes of schooling and education. There is also little doubt that Dewey (1998) recognized that there are two paradigms at work in education - one that is traditional and therefore structured, disciplined, ordered, and didactic, and one that is relatively unstructured, free, and student-directed. Beginning with this idea by Dewey (1998) the following analysis will attempt to provide answers to the questions listed above.

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sophy of learning which called for schools to favor a partial, qualitative, interconnected, personal, intuitive, and nonformalized way of knowing. He advances the concept of bricolage or tinkering to create an image of improvisational learning with self-directed activities resembling play that stimulate the way children learn in non-school settings. This constructionist approach to learning as advanced by Papert (1993, 2000) is similar to Dewey's (1998) call for experience as the foundation of learning. Papert (1993, pp. 142-143) wrote that: Constructionism also has the connotation of "construction set," starting with sets in the literal sense, such as Lego, and extending to include programming languages considered as "sets" from which programs can be made, and kitchens as "sets" from which not only cakes but recipes central mathematic tenets is that the construction that takes place "in the head" often happens especially felicitously when it is supported by construction of a more public sort "in the world" -- a sand castle or a cake, a Lego house or a corporation, a computer program, a poem, or a theory of the universe. Part of what I mean by "in the world" is that the product can be shown, discussed, examine
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