CHAPTER 12TRY A LITTLE TRICKERY (IT WORKS)
There we were, a group of classroom teachers, computer scientists, and musicians, standing on a hot tennis court in New Hampshire. Renowned tennis pro Tim Gallwey, author of the book, The Inner Game of Tennis, was facing a woman across the net who had never played before. It was 1990, and we were guests of Apple Computer's senior fellow Alan Kay, as we had been for summers since 1986, to spend one week at an off-site educational lab exploring the relationship between technology and the process of teaching and learning. In Kay's definition of technology, a tennis racquet, like a pencil, a musical instrument—or a student-built City in the classroom—is a tool of possibility.
Tim Gallwey had met us at ...
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