Leverage Existing Knowledge
Papert was careful to allow students to leverage existing knowledge in skills in their learning of new skills. We do this all the time, sometimes consciously, sometimes less so.
When faced with a sticky problem, there are a couple of classic approaches you’ll probably take. First, can you break the problem down into smaller, more manageable parts? This sort of functional decomposition is bread-and-butter to software developers: break things down into mind-size bites. The other very popular approach to take is to look for any similar problems you may have solved previously. Is this problem like some other? Can you use a similar solution or adapt the other solution to match this new problem?
Try mind-size bites. ...
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