Papert: School's Out

SCHOOL'S OUT?

A CONVERSATION WITH SEYMOUR PAPERT.

in Meme

Seymour Papert: The big shift is social rather than technological. In 1980 kids used computers in schools, and if you wanted to talk about changing education, school was the place to do it. Now there are many more computers in homes than schools, and there is more interesting innovation and alternative learning taking place in homes than in schools. The transformation is in the kids. They are the power that will change schools. They know a lot more than many teachers do -- certainly collectively they do. Computers in the home is the biggest source of change in education.
DB: Why is it an improvement that education might be happening in the home rather than in the schools? Why is that a cause for optimism?