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.
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Era
This category describes the time period in which Papert published or spoke the specific quote
LEGO, Logo, and Design
Attached is a 1988 paper written by the designers of LEGO TC Logo, Seymour Papert, Steve Ocko, and Mitchel Resnick.
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Affective Learning — a manifesto
This document was created by MIT Media Lab colleagues, Rozalind Picard, Seymour Papert, Walter Bender, Bruce Blumberg, Cynthia Breazeal, David Cavallo, Tod Machover, Mitchel Resnick, Deb Roy and Carol Strohecker in 2004. .
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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.
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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 College Press. The text originally appeared in: Proceedings of the Gerard P. Weeg Memorial Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1978. Be sure to read other Papert documents and watch videos in the
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July 12, 2021
“The next issue, which was the one I really wanted to touch on, was what … Was about how those computers would be used, and how they could be used, centered around whether you would look for the use of the computer that automated teaching, in the spirit that people often still associate with the
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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 of the Gerard P. Weeg Memorial Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1978 and was republished as chapter 15 in Taylor, R. (1980). The computer in the school: Tutor, tool, tutee. NY: Teacher’s College
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The Lessons of Logo
The Lessons of Logo Teaching and Computers Magazine “The Magazine for Teachers of the 1990s” March/April 1990 – Volume 7, Number 5 Orlando, L. C. (1990). The Lessons of Logo. Teaching and Computing, 7(5), 20-25. Teaching and Computers Lessons of Logo 1990 searchable It was almost 25 years ago that Logo, the first programming language
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Today’s Thought from Seymour Papert
“Two fundamental ideas run through this book. The first is that it is possible to design computers so that learning to communicate with them can be a natural process, more like learning French by living in France than like trying to learn it through the unnatural process of American foreign-language instruction in classrooms. Second, learning
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