Re: [Fwd: LOGO-L> ideas needed!!!]

[mikedoyle@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mike Doyle)]

In-Reply-To: <338C9DCF.16F9@icon-stl.net>
Sure.

Piaget proposed two processes that took place when people were faced with 
new knowledge. Firstly, they could try and fit it into their existing 
conceptual framework - assimilation. This is fine if there is no 
contradiction between the new concepts and the old. However, sometimes new 
knowledge that is incompatible with existing conceptual frameworks is 
assimilated to those frameworks. This sets up a tension. Learning takes 
place when the tension leeds to a change of conceptual framework to one 
which better fits the new knowledge. This is accommodation.

I argue that much computer based learning is assimilative. I.e. is fitted 
into the conceptual frameworks we developed for (inactive) pencil and 
paper media.

Micheal O Duill
EuroLogo Scientific Committee Chairman

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