This could well be the least technical post on this blog, but
I've been having trouble getting coherency in my thoughts and I
have to put it down for clarity. As has been the case in the
past, this blog becomes a sounding board for me to dribble my
thoughts. I'm not looking for comments, just trying to clear
stuff in my head. At Vidyakash 2002, it had been suggested that
I get a hold of Seymour Papert's The children's machine. Papert
worked under Piaget to study how children learn, and the results
of these studies were the Logo programming language, and two
successful books - Mindstorms, and The Children's Machine - the
former being the inspiration behind Lego Mindstorms. I managed
to get my hands on this book, and reviewed it for the Vidyakash
Newsletter. It had also started me thinking on how computers
were being used in education. What follows are my thoughts. The
role of computers in educationI think before we proceed to
decide on the tools to use, we need to know why we need
computers in a school. What w