@jlj congrats …

Thinking about what a LOGO turtle robot personification could look like for HTML. A turtle personifies a point with a heading... A dom blob (div)... could eat other blobs and customize itself with different styles? I DON'T KNOW OK 🤷‍♂️

On an early resistance to debugging code - "The ethic of school has rubbed off too well. What we see as a good program with a small bug, the child sees as "wrong," "bad," "a mistake." School teaches that errors are bad; the last thing one wants to do is to pore over them, dwell on them, or think about them."

Experience with computer programming leads children more effectively than any other activity to "believe in" debugging.

'As they puzzled together the child had a revelation: "Do you mean," he said, "that you really don't know how to fix it?" The child did not yet know how to say it, but what had been revealed to him was that he and the teacher had been engaged together in a research project. The incident is poignant. It speaks of all the times this child entered into teachers' games of "let's do that together" all the while knowing that the collaboration was a fiction. Discovery cannot be a setup; invention cannot be scheduled.'

"New knowledge often contradicts the old, and effective learning requires strategies to deal with such conflict."

New learning involves relating to existing knowledge, and then assimilating it by making it your own - using it. But relating Newton's laws of motion to practical objects in front of us, or trying to playfully use them just doesn't work.

@jlj It's a fun little place free of distractions :)

"It is my belief that learning physics consists of bringing physics knowledge into contact with very diverse personal knowledge. And to do this we should allow the learner to construct and work with transitional systems that the physicist may refuse to recognize as physics." - Papert, Mindstorms (still)

Thanks @eli_oat 🙌 Your blog is really fun!