Learning learning

cotroc Seymour’s Corner

(This section of the wiki is for stories told by Seymour Papert. Other learning stories can be submitted/found here.)

'Learning Learning'

In this corner of the OLPC Wiki I want to discuss all the big ideas about Learning. But I am happiest as a concrete thinker and so instead of playing the academic poohbah, each week I’ll offer a story or a parable accompanied by a sample of three kinds of comment on the OLPC idea: "bites" are meant to hurt us (but so far none are fatal); "licks" are meant to praise us but do so for poor reasons and "insights" are ones that get it.

• Parable 1 : When the Sage points at the moon...
• Parable 2 : One Pencil per Classroom
• Parable 3 : QWERTY and Intel