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Personal and current piece by Audrey Watters who has just visited Seymour Papert. Introductory excerpt: "In most contemporary educational situations where children come into contact with computers the computer is used to put children through their paces, to provide exercises of an appropriate level of difficulty, to provide feedback, and to dispense information. The computer programming the child."

Interesting angle on "the order in which learners should do things" that has a strong resonance with Dave Pratt's introduction at the kick-off meeting in July. "Students are better prepared to understand and appreciate the elegance of a theory or a principle when exploring the domain by themselves first."