Reflection of the article ‘A word of Learning’

Seymour Papert mentioned explicitly about the principles of learning. Usually Schools are encouraged to follow certain rules. Teachers need to focus on how students are able to solve the problems or to find out the correct answer, not to focus on rule or the way. Child can think about how they can solve problem individually. Student can able to solve a problem, when they spend little time to think about that. So, it is the thinking that fosters learning.
Papert suggested that school have to think more carefully about standard approaches to special education. Teacher has to think more profoundly about those disabilities and find the way to solve them. Motivation always does not work. Constructivism is built on the assumption that child will do best by finding for themselves the specific knowledge they need.
Everybody might have some learning difficulty in some area like author’s difficulty to remember the name of the flower or flower dyslexia. Learning explodes when one stay with it. The more connection means the more depth in that area. The new connection supports one another more effectively and those are long lasting and go in many direction. In my view, cultivation of knowledge is the key to someone’s success. The more someone cultivate something, the more he or she gains knowledge. Therefore, even though knowledge passes through a pipeline from teacher to student, interconnectivity of knowledge play a vital role in learning.

References:

Papert, S. (1993), The Children’s Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer. New York, NY: Basic Books