Mindstorms: children, computers and powerful ideas

Seymour Papert

BasicBooks, 1993 - Education - 230 pages

Mindstorms has two central themes: that children can learn to use computers in a masterful way and that learning to use computers can change the way they learn everything else. Even outside the classroom, Papert had a vision that the computer could be used just as casually and as personally for a diversity of purposes throughout a person’s entire life. Seymour Papert makes the point that in classrooms saturated with technology there is actually more socialization and that the technology often contributes to greater interaction among students and among students and instructors.

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User Review  - Andrew - Goodreads

This review is cross-posted from my personal site: Computers As Objects To Think With Bret Victor wrote an essay in 2012 that left me desperately wishing I were a computer engineer. "Learnable ...

Review: Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

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Educators, read this.

About the author

Seymour Papert is Lego Professor of Mathematics and Education at MIT, where he is also co-founder of the artificial intelligence and media laboratories.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mindstorms: children, computers and powerful ideas
• Author: Seymour Papert
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: BasicBooks, 1993
• ISBN: 0465046746, 9780465046744
• Length: 230 pages
• Subjects: Education / Computers & Technology; Education / General; Mathematics / History & Philosophy