June 2, 2000
When Students Use Computers, They Don't Get the Kind of Experience Dewey Valued
To the Editor:
In the essay "If John Dewey Were Alive Today, He'd Be a Webhead" (Point of View, April 28), Peshe Kuriloff argues that the success of her children in learning how to operate the family's new Macintosh computer vindicates John Dewey's idea that trial-and-error learning is the best teacher. Dewey's ideas, of course, underpin all the discovery-oriented, student-centered, constructivist, etc., pedagogies that have been propagated by the schools of
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