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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas Paperback – 14 July 1993

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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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    0465046746
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    978-0465046744
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    Subsequent
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    Basic Books
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    14 July 1993
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    13.34 x 2.22 x 20.96 cm
  8. Print length
    252 pages
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Seymour Papert is Lego Professor of Mathematics and Education at MIT, where he is also co-founder of the artificial intelligence and media labouratories.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Basic Books; Subsequent edition (14 July 1993)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 252 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0465046746
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0465046744
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.34 x 2.22 x 20.96 cm
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R. Court
5.0 out of 5 stars To little too late, but a fine effort
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2010
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This book is about the need to have children programming computers, not computers programming children.

It is a failure, because it was written in the 1980s, and now computers train children, and children almost never learn to program computers.

Everybody should read this, parents particularly, and teachers more than parents.

This book describes the Logo programming environment as it was in the 1980s. Computing has moved on, and there isn't much of Logo left these days.

Computer programming to a deep level could never have been easy, but I'm not sure whether it has become more difficult than it absolutely needed to be.
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Donald Mitchell
5.0 out of 5 stars EIGHT STARS -- A Breakthrough in Natural Learning
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 May 2004
This is the best book I have ever read on how to assist people to learn for themselves. Papert began his work by collaborating with Jean Piaget, and then applied those perspectives in a self-programming language designed to help children learn math and physics.
Papert explains Piaget's work and provides case studies of how the programming language, LOGO, can help. He provides a wonderful contrasting explanation of the weaknesses of how math and physics are usually taught in schools.
I learned quite a few things from this that I did not know before. People are very good at developing theories about why things work the way they do. I knew that these theories are almost always wrong. What I did not realize is that if you give the person a way to test their theory, the person will keep devising new theories until they hit on one that works. What is usually missing in education is the means to allow that testing to occur.
An especially imaginative part of this book were the discussions of how to create theory testing solutions that are much simpler and easier to apply than any school problem you ever saw in these subjects. Papert works from a very fundamental and deep understanding of math and physics to reach the heart of the most useful thought processes for applying these subjects. It is thrilling to read about what you have known for many years, and to suddenly see it in a totally different and improved perspective.
Another benefit I got from this book were plenty of ideas for how to help my teenage daughter with her math. She is very verbal, and Papert points out that math seldom teaches a vocabulary for talking about math. As a result, she memorizes a lot and gets dissociated from the subject. I got a lot of ideas for how to encourage her to personalize the concepts and problems by moving her own body. From that I realized that I often solve the same kinds of problems by recalling physical situations I have been in. But I have failed to help her make that connection because I was unaware of it on a conscious level.
If you want to improve as a learner, help others learn better and faster, or simply want to understand more about different ways to think, this is a great book. I hope that all teachers get a chance to read and apply it.
Enjoy learning more!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great content! Print not comfortable for the eyes. A few times, writing style is not the best
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 December 2016
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Print quality: Bad.
- There was no spaces that it made my eyes hurt.
- No stylistic separation between different paragraphs/topics which makes it hard to know if the author moved from a topic to another or no.
- But in general, the characters were clear. i.e., there was nothing like vanished characters, if I remember correctly.

Content: Great!
- Really, the content is great.
- Again, the content is really really great.
- You may think the content is outdated, but I felt it very relevant.

Writing style: Good or okay.
- Sometimes, it's very nice and in other times, partially due to no-stylistic-separation problem, you can't understand what the author means.
- A few times, there's too much meta-writing. Stuff like "So, next I will talk about X". I don't like that. I prefer that to be done through providing extra spaces between the paragraphs of the new topic. This was mainly in the first 3 chapters.

So, in general, would highly recommend!
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Bryce
5.0 out of 5 stars Super interesting and still relevant
Reviewed in the United States on 10 April 2024
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Seymour Papert was working on this in the 70s and early 80s, but the way he discusses learning and the ways technology interact with it is still relevant today. The specific technologies he was working with aren't in use as much today, but the way he describes using them is still important with more modern tools.

His warnings of how computers can be used poorly in education should still be heeded, and the constructionist philosophies are still powerful tools for helping children develop understanding of the world.

I recommend it for anyone who is interested in education.
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Gilvan Vilarim
5.0 out of 5 stars Clássico de Papert
Reviewed in Brazil on 7 April 2023
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Um livro essencial na área de informática e educação. Creio que já teve uma tradução mas não se encontra mais. Esse é o original em inglês. Ainda tem discussões muito atuais, apesar da época do lançamento.
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Guy Montpetit
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the intellectual giants
Reviewed in Canada on 7 September 2020
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Tour de force
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Saurabh Jain
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in India on 1 September 2017
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Book's content is good but the publisher has printed the text very small
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masaga
2.0 out of 5 stars 期待と少し異なる内容構成
Reviewed in Japan on 4 November 2016
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他メディアでの書評により本書を選んだのだが、コンピューターと接する子供の心理等に関するより一般的な記述を期待していたのに対して、"Logo"開発の経緯が中心の内容であったため、期待と少し異なる印象。
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