The Children’s Machine

Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer

Contributors

By Seymour A. Papert

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Apr 29, 1994
Page Count
256 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780465010639

Price

$22.99

Price

$29.99 CAD

Format

Trade Paperback

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Trade Paperback $22.99 $29.99 CAD

In his classsic book, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and powerful Ideas, Seymour Papert set out a vision of how computers could change school. In The Children’s Machine he now looks back over a decade during which American schools acquired more than three million computers and assesses progress and resistance to progress.

Seymour A. Papert

About the Author

Seymour Papert holds the Lego Chair for Learning Research at MIT. He is the author of Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas.

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