<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7997c507-cc34-4e71-93ec-a446726d6139/4A517366-2A15-468F-A8A6-9E18D1962C1C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.edutopia.org/node/901" href="http://www.edutopia.org/node/901" style="font-size: 11px;">www.edutopia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.edutopia.org/node/901"><H3>An expert on children and computing, <A href="http://www.papert.org/">Dr. Seymour Papert</A> is a mathematician and one of the early pioneers of Artificial Intelligence. He is a distinguished professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of major books on children and learning. Here he describes learning environments in which children collaborate around meaningful projects and powerful ideas.</H3> <OL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#graph1"> On the powerful impact of project-based work.</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#graph2"> On what must change in schools to better accommodate project-based learning.</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#graph3"> On how computer technology connects students’ interests with powerful ideas.</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#graph4"> On what assessment should look like in a project-oriented classroom or school.</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#graph5"> On the need to reinvent mathematics instruction in schools.</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#graph6"> On the importance of teachers learning alongside students.</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#graph7"> On reconciling dreams about the future with the reality of today’s classrooms.</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#graph8"> On the role that vision plays in producing real change.</A></LI></OL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4A517366-2A15-468F-A8A6-9E18D1962C1C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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