September 20, 2011
Video of Seymour Papert on “Idea Aversion” from 2009 interview One of theses clips should play on your device!
September 20, 2011 Read More »
Video of Seymour Papert on “Idea Aversion” from 2009 interview One of theses clips should play on your device!
September 20, 2011 Read More »
“If you’ve seen kids with computers, you know that there’s no better catalyst to share ideas. It’s a much more socializing experience than either school, which isolates kids, or television, which doesn’t encourage any socialization. The computer encourages kids to have conversations with one another.” Papert, S. (1997) in “Computing’s Idealist A chat with Seymour
September 14, 2011 Read More »
There won’t be schools in the future…. I think the computer will blow up the school. That is, the school defined as something where there are classes, teachers running exams, people structured in groups by age, following a curriculum-all of that. The whole system is based on a set of structural concepts that are incompatible
September 13, 2011 Read More »
“I think it’s better to put 100 computers in one percent of the schools than one computer in 100 percent of the schools.” Seymour Papert in Sullivan, N. (1984 ) “Seymour Papert, the Inventor of Logo has a Lot of Interesting Ideas” [interview]. Family PC Magazine. February 1984. Volume 2. Number 2. pp 70.
September 12, 2011 Read More »
“So, I think the first impact of paper on education is that we’ve created a form of school and of learning that means that people with certain kinds of personalities, certain structures, neurological structures, take to it well and succeed, and some of them take to it less well and don’t succeed, and some of
“I’d like to make a very clear distinction between how you think as a revolutionary, not someone who wishes to force change, but someone who looks far enough ahead and sees that there is going to be change. There is going to be fundamental change. And the big question that I would like to raise
“And I really am worried about the fact that we are undermining mathematical rigor, in fact we are undermining all rigor, by emphasizing the engagement side of what this computer can contribute to education, and we have to do something about this or it’s going to kick back at us.” Papert, S. (2004) Keynote address
“Isn’t it time for us to grow up? And as we grow up, we should stop seeing ourselves as specialists of computers in education, because that casts us in the role of a kind of service profession. Accepting the role allows that other people are the ones to decide the big goals of education, what
“Those other people, they don’t have conferences about “paper in education.” They have conferences on education, because they think they’re talking about the real thing. By having a conference on computers in education, we are defining ourselves in a subordinate position.” Papert, S. (2004) Keynote address at the i3 1 to 1 Notebook Conference. Sydney,
“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