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\section{Conclusion}

Summarizing, I am presenting an argument for an emergent design approach for
education systems, one that is based on an approach for emergent design detailed
by \cite{education:cavallo__technological_fluency} and that uses as its
pedagogical and epistemological base constructionism, as situated in
\cite{education:papert__situating_constructionism}.

This article ends with the words of
\cite{education:resnick&ocko_learning_through_design} that I find very relevant
for systems like the one I proposed so far:

\begin{quote} 
    Implementing these strategies is not easy. There are many unanswered
    questions--such as how to help students ``break away'' from their initial
    ``regions of comfort.'' And coordinating open-ended design activities is a
    challenge for any teacher. Indeed, organizing an ``Inventor's Workshop'' is
    far more difficult than delivering a lecture on mechanical advantage, or
    developing a step-by-step hands-on lesson. As
    \cite{education:dewey_experience_education} noted more than a half-century
    ago (in words that still ring true today): ``The road of the new education
    is not an easier one to follow than the old road but a more strenuous and
    difficult one.'' But it is a road well worth taking. 
\end{quote}