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Re:Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's... by tdkl on Saturday August 27, 2016 @01:59PM (#12373400)
> And when I watch her friends using the tablet in kindergarten, I see educational apps that introduces numbers, letters and simple logic. But couldn’t those subjects have been taught just as well without a computer?

Of course they could, but corporations couldn't earn millions in this case.

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Re:Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's... by jdminhbg on Saturday August 27, 2016 @02:28PM (#12373524)
No, people are very capable of earning millions by selling non-computerized educational materials. See the textbook industry for an example.
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