From Turkle to Sesame: What’s a Computer?

by gtdonovan on October 26, 2011 at 10:05 am · Filed under computer, education, evocative object, identity, quotes, Sesame Street, Turkle, youth

From Sherry Turkle’s “The Second Self,” p21:

… the computer is a metaphysical machine. Children too are provoked. The computer creates new occasions for thinking through the fundamental questions to which childhood must give a response, among them the question “what is life?”

From Sesame Street (h/t jgieseking, Aga Skorupka):

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