Project-based learning Archives

Seymour Papert Would Like a Word with Ron DeSantis 33 years ago

1990s, Computers, Constructionism, Epistemology, Learning, Project-based learning, Teaching / By gary

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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Life Itself is a Project

2000s, Constructionism, Project-based learning, Teaching / By gary

Thai educator Nalin Tutiyaphuengprasert posted this excerpt from an interview with Seymour Papert. I hope to have more pieces from this session available soon.

New Book Honors the Legacy of Seymour Papert

1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Computers, Constructionism, Epistemology, Learning, Logo, Mathematics, Project-based learning, Robotics, School Reform, Science, Teaching / By gary

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.

Laptops

1990s, Computers, Constructionism, Learning, Logo, Mathematics, Project-based learning, Robotics, School Reform, Teaching / By gary

Documents and recollections from the early days of 1:1 computing in schools.

October 18, 2021

2000s, Computers, Constructionism, Epistemology, Learning, Project-based learning, School Reform, Teaching / By gary

“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.

“School of the Future” (1986)

1980s, Computers, Constructionism, Epistemology, Mathematics, Project-based learning, Robotics, School Reform, Teaching, video / By gary

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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LEGO, Logo, and Design

1980s, Computers, Constructionism, Learning, Logo, Mathematics, Project-based learning, Robotics, School Reform, Science, Teaching / By gary

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

2000s, Computers, Constructionism, Epistemology, Learning, Mathematics, Project-based learning, School Reform, Science, Teaching, video / By gary

This interview appears to have been recorded for the 2002 Squeakers documentary DVD by a team from Ball State University. Transcription attached.

July 12, 2021

1980s, Computers, Constructionism, Epistemology, Learning, Project-based learning, Robotics, School Reform, Teaching, video / By gary

“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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The Lessons of Logo

1990s, Computers, Learning, Logo, Project-based learning, Robotics, School Reform, Teaching / By gary

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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