By Gary S. Stager, PhD & Sylvia Libow (June 8, 2026) In 1965, Hubert Dreyfus, a philosophy professor at MIT, wrote a paper arguing that artificial intelligence was heading toward a dead end. He claimed the entire enterprise was built on a false assumption about how human minds work. Dreyfus asserted that computers, no matter
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Gary Stager and Constructing Modern Knowledge maintain the online Seymour Papert archives at dailypapert.com. In addition to curating hundreds of articles, papers, speeches, and recordings by Dr. Papert, the father of educational computing, The Daily Papert offers a growing library of classic Logo books and documents the history of 1:1 personal computing in schools. We
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I recently found, scan, and proofread the abstract Seymour Papert submitted in advance of his July 1990 World Conference on Computers in Education Conference in Sydney, Australia. The keynote transcript itself is spectacular, worthy of your attention, and may be found here. The PDF of the abstract may be found here. The full text is
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Among Dr. Seymour Papert’s vast contributions to knowledge, his framing of educational decision making through the lens of instructionism vs. constructionism may be the most profound, useful, and enduring. Any discussion, debate, controversy, or concern about education policy or decision about pedagogical approach is based on the personal stance of how you believe learning occurs.
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Did you own a personal computer 40 years ago? How many teachers and students had access to computers in 1983. What if I told you that a 400-page book focused on teaching computer programming to children sold more than 100,000 copies way back then? Well, it’s true. Former engineer, elementary school teacher, and member of
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In 1966, The Elementary Science Study published a curriculum, Behavior of Mealworms. It provided opportunities for children to engage in many scientific pursuits with readily accessible larval form of a darkling beetle. In 1977, Hal Abelson and Paul Goldenberg of the MIT AI/Logo Laboratory, published a paper, Teacher’s Guide for Computational Models of Animal Behavior.
Perestroika and Epistemological Politics Keynote address at the World Conference on Computers in Education at Darling Harbor, Sydney, Australia July 1990 By Seymour Papert[*] MIT Media Laboratory 20 Ames Street, E15-313 Cambridge, MA 02139 During the week of the conference you have been immersed in exciting and focused discussions about actual uses of computers in real educational settings.
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Thai educator Nalin Tutiyaphuengprasert posted this excerpt from an interview with Seymour Papert. I hope to have more pieces from this session available soon.
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