I think Disney is a very interesting company, and it does have an extremely powerful means for projecting a certain way of thinking.

Even with the most stupid video games, kids learn more about learning than they ever did before, because they want to learn codes and moves before other kids figure them out. They're motivated to seek out someone or search the Net for help. A student who makes a video game has to solve mathematical problems to make special effects happen on the screen.

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company develop software for rebellious kids who don't want to go to school.

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate

The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take a view of learning as a reconstruction rather than as a transmission of knowledge. Then we extend the idea of manipulative materials to the idea that learning is most effective when part of an activity the learner experiences as constructing a meaningful product.