By Jenna McWilliams on February 12, 2009 4:02 PM
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I recently wrote about blogging as a technology that can be leveraged for engaging in participatory practices. That got me wondering: Why haven't I put my money where my mouth is? Why haven't I started my own blog?
Well, now I have. And I'm linking to my most recent post, which begins as follows:
This is one of my favorite quotes in the universe:
"There won't be schools in the future.... I think the computer will blow up the school. That is, the school defined as something where there are classes, teachers running exams, people structured in groups by age, following a curriculum-- all of that. The whole system is based on a set of structural concepts that are incompatible with the presence of the computer... But this will happen only in communities of children who have access to computers on a sufficient scale."--Seymour Papert
My deep, deep sense is that Papert is right. In all significant ways, computers have exploded...
(click here to link to the full post, "It already happened; nobody noticed")
