Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Papert's principle

10.1 Piaget's experiments
10.2 Reasoning about amounts
10.3 Priorities
10.4 Papert's principle
10.5 The society-of-more
10.6 About Piaget's experiments
10.7 The concept of concept
10.8 Education and development
10.9 Learning a hierarchy

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10.1 Piaget's experiments, p 99
Balance between the concepts of "more" and "same" for 5 and 7
years old children:
- more in the tall jar;
- the same, because it is the same water.

10.2 Reasoning about amounts, p 100
Whatever we learn, there is always more to learn -about how to
use what was already learned.

10.3 Priorities, p 101
Water jar experiment:
The taller, the more.
The thinner, the less.
The same: nothing added or removed.
The younger children have placed their agents in some "order of
priority" [tall, thin, confined].

10.4 Papert's principle, p 102
"Some of the most crucial steps in mental growth are based not
simply on acquiring new skills, but on acquiring new
administrative ways to use what one already knows."

10.9 Learning a hierarchy, p 107
[Atomic transactions to update the hierarchy -e.g. the Society-
of-more]