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
March 25, 2014
“From the perspective of the 1990s, it appears bizarre or downright reactionary that Mindstorms makes no reference to gender or multiculturalism. I... Read More
March 24, 2014
“An examination of computer use in schools today reveals that students’ interactions with computers are largely teacher-directed, workbook-oriented, for limited periods of... Read More
March 3, 2014 – We’re back!
“Certain notions of mathematics are not sufficiently embedded in the culture for children to learn in their natural way, so they come... Read More
June 11, 2012
“Logo is much like a natural language such as English. Baby talk allows the child an easy way to grab onto and... Read More
May 21, 2012
“Children seem to be such remarkable learners on their own, but then they enter school. Some succeed in school, and it is... Read More
May 14, 2012
“I shall describe learning paths that have led hundreds of children to becoming quite sophisticated programmers. Once programming is seen in the... Read More
May 2, 2012
“Our culture tends to equate soft with feminine and feminine with unscientific and undisciplined. “ Papert, S. and Turkle, S. (1990) Epistemological... Read More
May 1, 2012
“The computer can be a partner in a great diversity of relationships. The computer is an expressive medium that different people can... Read More
April 26, 2012
“When I met Piaget my passion for understanding mathematics came together with my desire to know how the mind works and to... Read More