It's the natural way to package stuff I've thought through since the first edition. Concrete motive, not ideology for me :)
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Makes me even more excited to the extent that suggests it's more likely to succeed =)
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tough project: unbundle both book and follow-on blog posts into essentially tool tips/lesson modules, and use to "furnish" an app
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… You can then think about interest groups, docents, artist statements, painting classes, etc.
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. In fact, you cannot "unbundle" in the abstract. You have to know new mental model you're rebundling into, a priori.
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Dunno if you've read Mindstorms yet, but I really think the notion of 'microworld' has a lot to offer this conversation—
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I'm thinking that little geometry-coding exercise in one of the bits you sent me. Kinda brittle, no?
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… You may appreciate papert.org/articles/SomeP for some insight into his affection for the dirty and robust.
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check out that article, if it's too long to sit through, Ctrl-F "samba school" and start there =)
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I'd add "open" to that. Openness is where many self-directed learning models fail. Allow people to bring own toys into playroom
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