Matthias wrote in his blogs that the Waldorf pedagogy did not support to use computers by children at too early age.
The same was articulated in my favour book: "The Cult of Information" by " Theodore Roszak (1986). (Do you know it?) Roszak protested against the conception of Piaget and Seymour Papert, who stated that working with Logo develops the creativity of children. Yes - he said - the children can easily draw flowers by using Logo, and it makes them happy, but how can it be compared to the flower drawn by hand using coloured pencils. How the artifical flower created by the computer can be compared to the beautiful drawings by childrens?
What do you think? Could we develop students' creativity by computers, or not? 25 years are away since Roszak's book was published! What can we say about it today?
Maria
The same was articulated in my favour book: "The Cult of Information" by " Theodore Roszak (1986). (Do you know it?) Roszak protested against the conception of Piaget and Seymour Papert, who stated that working with Logo develops the creativity of children. Yes - he said - the children can easily draw flowers by using Logo, and it makes them happy, but how can it be compared to the flower drawn by hand using coloured pencils. How the artifical flower created by the computer can be compared to the beautiful drawings by childrens?
What do you think? Could we develop students' creativity by computers, or not? 25 years are away since Roszak's book was published! What can we say about it today?
Maria
Hi Maria
I hope that in a kindergarten and in a primary school, theachers will go on making their students to draw flowers with pencils ... and, of course, making them graw real flowers in the garden
.
And I hope they will use also the computers.
I hope that in a kindergarten and in a primary school, theachers will go on making their students to draw flowers with pencils ... and, of course, making them graw real flowers in the garden
.And I hope they will use also the computers.
Pierfranco! Agreed :)!