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New Book Honors the Legacy of Seymour Papert
All-star team of experts author book fifty years in the making This book may be the most important EdTech book in memory. I am enormously proud to not only share it with the world, but gratified to have it reach #1 new computers and technology education release on Amazon.com Twenty Things to Do with a... Read More
Laptops
By Gary Stager (2021) In July 1990, I made my first trip to Australia to speak at the World Conference on Computers in Education, held at what was then the new Darling Harbor Convention Centre. Not only did this represent the realization of a childhood dream of visiting Downunder, but the conference brought together US... Read More
October 18, 2021
“Our school systems are being strangled by the cost of this curious epidemic of learning disability.” Seymour Papert From Papert, S., March 16, 2000. Millennial Lecture at the Muskie Archives. Tweet This Post
Seymour Papert’s Opening of the London Knowledge Lab (2004)
Professor Seymour Papert was one of the invited speakers. Full video at https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/3004 Video: Opening of the London Knowledge Lab “Thank you and I owe you a debt too and I think the world does. I think it’s a great thing that you’re doing here. I’d like to pick on just one aspect of it... Read More
“School of the Future” (1986)
In 1986, the MIT Media Lab made a laserdisc describing their research groups and mission. This video describes Seymour Papert’s Learning Research Group’s work at the Hennigan (middle) School in Boston. View the entire laser disc video at the Internet Archive. Transcript Narrator: (00:15)Learning Research Group’s School of the future project takes place in a... Read More
Seymour Papert on Unleashing Children’s Musical Creativity
I just stumbled upon this short 1985 video clip (featuring Rena Upitis) that I had not seen before. Tweet This Post
LEGO, Logo, and Design
Attached is a 1988 paper written by the designers of LEGO TC Logo, Seymour Papert, Steve Ocko, and Mitchel Resnick.
Affective Learning — a manifesto
This document was created by MIT Media Lab colleagues, Rozalind Picard, Seymour Papert, Walter Bender, Bruce Blumberg, Cynthia Breazeal, David Cavallo, Tod Machover, Mitchel Resnick, Deb Roy and Carol Strohecker in 2004. .
Outtakes from Seymour Papert’s Squeakers DVD Interview
This interview appears to have been recorded for the 2002 Squeakers documentary DVD by a team from Ball State University. Transcription attached.