The realy work was done by Simon Papert, his essay "The Gears of My Childhood" (pdf link http://learn.media.mit.edu/lcl/resources/activity/week1/gear...) is worth a read.
A quote from this essay: "The fundamental fact about learning: Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models. If you can't, anything can be painfully difficult."
The realy work was done by Simon Papert, his essay "The Gears of My Childhood" (pdf link http://learn.media.mit.edu/lcl/resources/activity/week1/gear...) is worth a read.
A quote from this essay: "The fundamental fact about learning: Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models. If you can't, anything can be painfully difficult."