June 27, 2017
Seymour Papert (early 200s): And by the way something that we’ve seen that’s incredibly encouraging is that there’s a lot of fear... Read More
April 1, 2014
Curator’s Note: Thanks to the Internet Archive, I found this long-lost article by Dr. Papert written for the March 1981 issue Creative... Read More
August 22, 2012
“We need chutzpah to face down those people who say “ Hey who are we to say technology should dictate what children... Read More
April 30, 2012
“Culturally shared negative attitudes toward teachers are nour ished by personal experiences. As a rebellious child I saw teachers as the enemy.... Read More
April 2, 2012
“The role of the teacher is to become a co-learner. Eventually, teachers, that is to say, adults with experience of learning will... Read More
March 26, 2012
“Many aspects of School block teachers from the fulfillment of functioning in a class as co-learners.” Papert, S. (1993) The Children’s Machine:... Read More
March 22, 2012
“In Mindstorms (Papert, 1980), I asked (choosing one out of a vast number of possible examples) why the quadratic equation of the... Read More
February 14, 2012
“The best learning is learning that is embraced and enjoyed. Children love to learn until they are taught otherwise. Indeed even then,... Read More
January 26, 2012
“Imagine a party of time travelers, among them a group of surgeons and a group of school teachers, who came from the... Read More
October 25, 2011
“Let’s go back to Dewey for a moment. Intellectual growth, he often told us, must be rooted in the child’s experience. But... Read More