New Book Honors the Legacy of Seymour Papert
All-star team of experts author book fifty years in the making This book may be the most important EdTech book in memory.... Read More
Seymour Papert’s Opening of the London Knowledge Lab (2004)
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... Read More
“School of the Future” (1986)
In 1986, the MIT Media Lab made a laserdisc describing their research groups and mission. This video describes Seymour Papert’s Learning Research... Read More
Seymour Papert on Unleashing Children’s Musical Creativity
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
Attached is a 1988 paper written by the designers of LEGO TC Logo, Seymour Papert, Steve Ocko, and Mitchel Resnick.
Outtakes from Seymour Papert’s Squeakers DVD Interview
This interview appears to have been recorded for the 2002 Squeakers documentary DVD by a team from Ball State University. Transcription attached.
Personal Computing and Its Impact on Education
This document is from the book Papert, S in Taylor, R. (1980). The computer in the school: Tutor, tool, tutee. NY: Teacher’s... Read More
July 12, 2021
“The next issue, which was the one I really wanted to touch on, was what … Was about how those computers would... Read More
Happy Juneteenth!
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New Addition to the Papert Text Archives
Personal Computing and Its Impact on Education is the transcription of a 1978 speech given by Seymour Papert. It originally appeared in: Proceedings... Read More