Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas

$19.95

by Seymour Papert
230 pages, Adult

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas presents an exciting vision of education for the future - the collaboration between computers and children. Computer-aided instruction no longer needs to mean "using computers to 'program' children." Papert's work with children and the Logo language is now enabling children to program the computer, mastering a powerful technology and coming into contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, mathematics, and model making. Mindstorms states the intellectual background for Logo and explores its profound implications.

It includes a provocative analysis of the nature of knowledge and learning and a critique of the organization and structure of the current educational establishment. Papert's vision provides a beacon pointing the way to the future of education.