Hypermedia and learning - Learning processes Hypermedia and learning Learning processes Jean Piaget has his theory of how the learning process progresses, that in a short summary can be described that the child is absorbing something new and adds it to the previous knowledge, assimilation and accommodation.
Children are builders of their own intellectual structures.
The building material is absorbed from everywhere. Two fundamental ideas Seymour Papert writes about two fundamental ideas that run through out his book. The computer can be a mathematics-speaking and an alphabetic speaking entity. A natural tool for children For children who start in school nowadays, the computer is a natural tool, and children sees nothing strange in it. For older generations it is a brand new tool, and it is therefor much harder for them to accept is as a natural tool.