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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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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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.
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“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.
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
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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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