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the blinders of convergent problem solving

In edumication on 10 October 2008 tagged constructionism, convergent, divergent, epistemology, iteration, learning, mindstorms, seymour-papert, teaching with 3 comments

In 19801 Mindstorms, Seymour Papert wrote:

I have seen [a resistance to "debugging"] in many children’s first sessions in a LOGO environment. The child plans to make the Turtle draw a certain figure, such as a house or stick man. A program is quickly written and tried. It doesn’t work. Instead of being debugged, it is [...]