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The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer

Seymour Papert

In his classsic book, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and powerful Ideas, Seymour Papert set out a vision of how computers could change school. In The Children's Machine he now looks back over a decade during which American schools acquired more than three million computers and assesses progress and resistance to progress.

GenresComputer-assisted instructionEducationData processing

241 pages, 3 editions

English edition · First published 1993 by BasicBooks · ISBN 9780465010639

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3 editions

English

  • The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer · BasicBooks · 1993 · ISBN 9780465010639 This page
  • The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer · Harvester Wheatsheaf · 1994 · ISBN 9780745016030
  • The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer · BasicBooks · 1993 · ISBN 9780465018307

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