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I must share the very wonderful video by Seymour Papert on teaching LOGO. He makes a similar observation: imagine if we taught people dancing by sitting them at
by TaylorAlexander 5y ago
I must share the very wonderful video by Seymour Papert on teaching LOGO. He makes a similar observation: imagine if we taught people dancing by sitting them at a desk and explaining all the steps to them, making them memorize them and write them down, but they were never allowed to actually move or try the steps. We find when teaching people a language for example that immersion works very well. So Papert suggests teaching math by immersing students in "Math land", and shows off his computer language LOGO designed to do that. It is a wonderful video in many ways and a big inspiration for me as I think about hopefully teaching in the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG9cYhekB8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG9cYhekB8A
Youtube link for easy viewing but the entire video series he helped produce is here:
https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/resources/onlogo/index.html https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/resources/onlogo/in...
- xmprt 5y agoMissing from those analysis is the fact that not everyone has it in them to learn to code like that. I've genuinely tried learning to dance before with practice and I just sucked at it so I put it down and picked up another hobby. Yet in today's world we have this obsession with getting everyone to learn how to program in python. Instead we could be teaching the actual skills like critical thinking and problem solving in a ton of other ways that might stick better with students.
- bdowling 5y agoFor someone who can think critically and solve problems, translating a solution into Python is the easy part.