I know he really doesn't identify with "teaching children." Making tools that will be a useful basis for technology 100 years from now is different, but related, to caring about pedagogy.
Perhaps, I wrote that as much for myself as for my interpretation of Bret's work. That said, I don't think anything I've read in the last 5 years has impacted me as much as Papert's Mindstorms, which I believe is a strong influencer of Bret's work. Papert here is not teaching children because of pedagogy but instead because he believes, as I do, that children and true experts see the world in the same way.
So that's really what I meant when I highlighted teaching children. Not changing school curricula (and I mean, who pretends today that schools are really in it to teach children anyway?) but instead connecting with minds like children sometimes are before they become afraid to learn.
So that's really what I meant when I highlighted teaching children. Not changing school curricula (and I mean, who pretends today that schools are really in it to teach children anyway?) but instead connecting with minds like children sometimes are before they become afraid to learn.