Sublime

Using the PBL approach, students become empowered, engaged, and invested in the learning.

educational institutions can become the breeding ground for imaginative solutions.

Create a tinkertable:

1 Classrooms as communities, where the teacher is building a sense of community in which students are actively engaged and have a chance to shape the way things are organized.

Papert saw that Jean Piaget, his old mentor, had got it wrong. As children grew up, they did not move from physical learning through imaginary learning and on to formal or rational learning, leaving the earlier modes behind as they ‘outgrew’ them. On the contrary, imagining and reasoning added to observing and experimenting, making practical learni

Traditional schooling irons out our creative impulses in order to prepare us for the factory and the cubicle. Our educational system was made this way with the best of intentions, but that way of operating is wildly obsolete.

First, there was the continuity principle: The mathematics must be continuous with well-established personal knowledge from which it can inherit a sense of warmth and value as well as “cognitive” competence. Then there was the power principle: It must empower the learner to perform personally meaningful projects that could not be done without it. F