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New Book Honors the Legacy of Seymour Papert

1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Computers, Constructionism, Epistemology, Learning, Logo, Mathematics, Project-based learning, Robotics, School Reform, Science, Teaching / By gary

The book celebrates the 50th anniversary of a seminal paper by Cynthia Solomon and Seymour Papert. Published in 1971, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer, set the course of education for the next fifty years and beyond. I created the new book, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50, to honor the vision set forth by Papert and Solomon a half-century ago. Four dozen experts from around the world invite us to consider the original provocations, reflect on their implementation, and chart a course for the future through personal recollections, learning stories, and imaginative scenarios.

“School of the Future” (1986)

1980s, Computers, Constructionism, Epistemology, Mathematics, Project-based learning, Robotics, School Reform, Teaching, video / By gary

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 …

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Seymour Papert on Unleashing Children’s Musical Creativity

1980s, Computers, Constructionism, Logo, Teaching / By gary

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

1980s, Computers, Constructionism, Learning, Logo, Mathematics, Project-based learning, Robotics, School Reform, Science, Teaching / By gary

Attached is a 1988 paper written by the designers of LEGO TC Logo, Seymour Papert, Steve Ocko, and Mitchel Resnick.

Personal Computing and Its Impact on Education

1970s, 1980s, Computers, Epistemology, Learning, Logo, Mathematics, School Reform, Teaching / By gary

This document is from the book Papert, S in Taylor, R. (1980). The computer in the school: Tutor, tool, tutee. NY: Teacher’s College Press. The text originally appeared in: Proceedings of the Gerard P. Weeg Memorial Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1978. Be sure to read other Papert documents and watch videos in the …

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July 12, 2021

1980s, Computers, Constructionism, Epistemology, Learning, Project-based learning, Robotics, School Reform, Teaching, video / By gary

“The next issue, which was the one I really wanted to touch on, was what … Was about how those computers would be used, and how they could be used, centered around whether you would look for the use of the computer that automated teaching, in the spirit that people often still associate with the …

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Today’s Thought from Seymour Papert

1980s, Computers, Learning, Mathematics, School Reform, uncategorized / By gary

“Two fundamental ideas run through this book. The first is that it is possible to design computers so that learning to communicate with them can be a natural process, more like learning French by living in France than like trying to learn it through the unnatural process of American foreign-language instruction in classrooms. Second, learning …

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A Bit of Wisdom from Seymour Papert

1980s, Computers / By gary

“All of us, professionals as well as laymen, must consciously break the habits we bring to thinking about the computer. Computation is in its infancy. It is hard to think about computers of the future without projecting onto them the properties and the limitations of those we think we know today. And nowhere is this …

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Thought of the Day from Seymour Papert

1980s, Computers, Mathematics, Science, Teaching / By gary

“Many children who grow up in our cities are surrounded by the artifacts of science but have good reason to see them as belonging to “the others”; in many case they are perceived as belonging to the social enemy. Still other obstacles are more abstract, though ultimately of the same nature. Most branches of the …

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Today’s Word for Learning from Seymour Papert

1980s, Computers, Learning, School Reform, Teaching / By gary

“Most writers emphasized using computers for games, entertainment, income tax, electronic mail, shopping, and banking. A few talked about the computer as a teaching machine. This book too poses the question of what will be done with personal computers, but in a very different way. I shall be talking about how computers may affect the …

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