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Daily words & wisdom of Dr. Seymour Papert

  • “Now I Know Why We Have Nouns and Verbs”
  • 1994 Keynote at National School Boards Conference
  • A Critique of Technocentrism in Thinking About the School of the Future
  • About
  • An Evaluative Study of Modern Technology in Education
  • An Evaluative Study of Modern Technology in Education
  • An Exploration in the Space of Mathematics Educations
  • Bode Miller
  • Child Power: Keys to the New Learning of the Digital Century
  • Computer as Condom
  • Computer as Material: Messing About with Time
  • Computer Criticism vs. Technocentric Thinking
  • Computers in the Classroom: Agents of Change
  • Constructionism vs. Instructionism
  • Constructionism: A New Opportunity for Elementary Science Education
  • Diversity in Learning: A Vision for the New Millennium
  • Does Easy Do It? Children, Games, and Learning
  • Educational Computing: How Are We Doing?
  • Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete
  • Event Programming in Logo
  • Ghost in the Machine: Seymour Papert on How Computers Fundamentally Change the Way Kids Learn
  • Hard Fun
  • Ian’s Truck
  • Introduction to Embodiments of Mind by Warren S. McCulloch
  • It Takes a Whole State to Raise its Schools
  • Keynote address – Kids and Computer – What’s a Parent to Do? – MIT, September 1991
  • Keynote address – 1992 New Jersey Educational Computing Conference
  • Keynote address – New Jersey Educational Computing Conference 1990
  • Learning by the Skin of His Teeth
  • LogoWriter Tape 1 (1986)
  • LogoWriter Tape 2 (1986)
  • Looking at Technology Through School-Colored Spectacles
  • MIT Logo Memo Archive
  • My Learning Disability
  • Obsolete Skill Set: The 3 Rs — Literacy and Letteracy in the Media Ages
  • Paper for the President’s Commission for a National Agenda for the 80s
  • Papert Excerpts from an MIT Media Lab Interactive Videodisc (1986)
  • Papert on Logo (c. 1986)
  • Papert On Logo: “New MicroWorlds – Tape 2, Teaching (c. 1986)
  • Papert on Piaget
  • Papert’s Principle
  • Perestroika and Epistemological Politics
  • Preface to The Children’s Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer
  • Professor Papert Discusses One Laptop Per Child Project
  • Redefining Childhood: The Computer Presence as an Experiment in Developmental Psychology
  • Redefining Childhood: The Computer Presence as an Experiment in Developmental Psychology
  • School’s Out?
  • Semi-annual Constructionism Conference Archives
  • Seymour Papert – Bates College
  • Seymour Papert 2002 Interview
  • Seymour Papert Obituary (1928 – 2016)
  • Seymour Papert Obituary Collection
  • Seymour Papert On Logo: Hurdles – Tape 1 – Grammar (1986)
  • Seymour Papert On Logo: Hurdles – Tape 2 – Names and Variables (1986)
  • Seymour Papert On Logo: Hurdles – Tape 3 – Images of Recursion (1986)
  • Seymour Papert On Logo: Hurdles – Tape 4 – Digging Deeper (1986)
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  • Seymour Papert One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Interview
  • Seymour Papert’s Valedictory Speech Upon Being Named LEGO Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab
  • Situating Constructionism
  • Some Poetic and Social Criteria for Education Design
  • SUNDAY INTERVIEW
  • Technology in Schools: Local fix or Global Transformation?
  • Technology Works Enterprises Proposal
  • THE CHALLENGES OF IDC: What have we learned from our past? A conversation with Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky, and Alan Kay
  • The Future of School
  • The Future of School
  • The Gears of My Childhood
  • The Learning State
  • The Lessons of Logo
  • The Lessons of Logo
  • The Parent Trap
  • The Wonderful Discovery of Nothing
  • Tomorrow’s Classrooms?
  • Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right but Three Rights Do Make a Left
  • Vision for Education: The Caperton-Papert Platform
  • What is Logo? And Who Needs It?
  • Where’s the Elephant?
  • Why School Reform Is Impossible
  • About Seymour Papert
  • Print Archives
  • Multimedia
  • Ways to Help
  • Technology in Schools: Local fix or Global Transformation?
  • Logo as Trojan Horse: Rethinking Logo Philosophy in the Context of a Real School Experience
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  • Seymour Papert’s CUE Keynote (May 2000)
  • Let’s Tie the Digital Knot
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June 22, 2011

2000s, Computers, Constructionism, Epistemology, Learning, Logo, Mathematics, Project-based learning, School Reform, Science, Teaching, uncategorized / By gary

“Here’s a little curious thing that I’ve recently become intrigued by. I worked during the 80s developing a way of children doing robotics using LEGO and eventually LEGO made this thing that they marketed under the name of my book Mindstorms which is build LEGO but instead of LEGO just being an architectural passive thing you make things it can do that can act to have behaviour. So you’ve got motors and gears and sensors and a little computer in it, so you can program it to do things.

LEGO marketed this for a pre-teen boys which annoyed me a lot. I’ve been trying to work on using this kind of building of robot like things in a wider context. Working with very young children like some preschool children or first or second grade children. Interesting thing that we stumbled on was whenever we get a group of these kids working with this technology, there’s always some, a kid or two who drifts up as the expert. The one that everybody looks to for more knowledge – it’s always a girl. Now why is it always a girl? And you look more closely you see the boys are obsessed with making one kind of thing: they want to make something that goes fast and far and it’ll run across the room, preferably smash what everyone else made and this obsession means that they’re looking at a narrow range of things to do with this technology.

The girls…even just because they don’t have this obsession – do a bigger variety of things with it and so they develop a richer knowledge, but even more than that they’d like to make something that they can interact with or that they can use to interact with other people. One girl said she’s dancing with it and that sort of led me off into a whole branch of research that I’m working on now. She wanted to make something that she or several of their friends could dance with, move around and they could dance with it and that was much more sophisticated technologically so it’s an interesting little twist where because of the kind of fact that you’re mentioning that the girls more interested in social and interaction actually led her to master this technology much more deeply than the boys did. “

Papert, S. (2004) Interview with Geraldine Doogue for the Australian Broadcasting Coporation’s Program, Sunday Profile. Transcript on the Web here.

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