Hi All!
I wanted to recommend an inspiring and engaging book to all of you. More than 50 years ago, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon wrote a paper called 20 Things to Do with a Computer. This paper presented the vision of children using computers as a creative tool as well as a tool for learning how to learn, and is foundationally relevant to anyone involved educational robotics today. Or really, anyone involved in education today!
The book, 20 Things to do with a Computer Forward 50: Future Visions of Education brings together essays and thoughts about the impact of Papert and Solomon’s ideas and how we can continue to use them as inspiration to create powerful experiential learning environments for students moving forward.
Both @Audra_Selkowitz and I were lucky enough to meet Cynthia Solomon, the mother of educational computing, at a conference a few years back, when we got to sit at a table with her and chat while working on physical computing projects, and she was incredibly giving and lively and fun to talk to, and I feel so lucky to have had that opportunity.
I’m still in the middle of the book, but if anyone else out there is reading it or wants to read it, I’d absolutely love to chat about it here in the Community! It is already filling me with ideas and motivation and I’m sure it will do the same for many of you.
I’ll have to add this to my ever growing TBR list…