![]() ![]() ![]() The constructionist model, put simply, says people learn best by building things - solving problems by “constructing” answers as active agents - instead of by being passive recipients ofĬomputing is potentially an ideal tool for constructionist education because a computer is a universal machine and software is a building material without material constraints. Of the Logo programming language, designed for education. computer scientist, educator and inventor It’s an approach that builds on theĬonceptual work of Jean Piaget, the Swiss philosopher and developmental theorist, and the practical research of his intellectual descendants like Seymour Papert, the M.I.T. laptops, is the means toward the end of a “constructionist learning model,” said Mr. The Sugar software, which provides the user interface for O.L.P.C. Bender is a founder of Sugar Labs, a new organization whose goal is to continue developing and promoting the use of Sugar open-source education software. The project’s focus, he said, is on bringing low-cost laptop computers to children around the world. has become implicitly agnostic about learning,” he said. The issue, in his view, is whether the tools that bring computing to children are “agnostic on learning” “Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease,” he said in the interview. Bender last Friday to discuss his views at more length and give them a broader airing. I am a free and open-source (FOSS) fundamentalist. Negroponte’s comment and elaborating on his own views: “Mr. Bender sent a letter to The Times, taking issue with Mr. “I think some people, including Walter, became much too fundamental about open source,” he said.Īfter the article was published May 16, Mr. Negroponte said that, in his view, some people had come to see open-source software as an end of the Bender’s departure, and he called it “a huge loss.” Mr. He replied that he decided his efforts to advance the cause of open-source learning software “would have more impactįrom outside of O.L.P.C. Bender an e-mail message, asking him why he left. When I wrote the news article, I sent Mr. Of blog posts that suggested his exit was because a pact with Microsoft was in the works. Bender oversaw software development for the project. Walter Bender, a longtime collaborator of Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the nonprofit laptop group, left O.L.P.C. And Microsoft had resisted joining anything that promoted open-source software. project, intended to bring cheap computers to children in poorer nations, had been committed to using the freely distributed Linux operating system, an open-source alternative ![]() When Microsoft joined the One Laptop Per Child project earlier this month, I wrote an article noting the change (Credit: Jodi Hilton for The New York Times) Walter Bender, left, and Nicholas Negroponte, in 2006, with an early version the computer developed by the One Laptop Per Child project. ![]()
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