Presentation given at the Northwest Council of Computers in Education
Annual Conference - Spokane, WA
April 15, 2004
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination." John Dewey
1. Dewey: Thinking, Learning and Teaching At the turn of the century John Dewey proposed that children would learn best by doing; by constructing real projects that were meaningful to them. One hundred years after Dewey began to write about fundamental pedagogical reforms, students may finally be afforded the opportunity to construct their own understanding using what Papert referred to as the “children’s machine”. Dewey believed that through the use of relevant real projects, students would not only learn and remember, but that the experience of constructing and discovering was a critical element of their education.
