The Papert Archives Project

Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
Constructing Modern Knowledge
curator@dailypapert.com

The following speeches, interviews, and panel discussion have been transcribed for the purposes of scholarship and preserving the legacy of Dr. Seymour Papert. We are also assembling an increasingly exhaustive collection of Seymour Papert’s published articles, interviews, and papers. This print archive may be found here.

In a few cases, little known documents written by Seymour Papert and not transcribed by Gary Stager are also included. Please help identify trends, big ideas, and shareable thoughts from what you read.

Videos with excellent audio quality will tend to have much more accurate transcripts, even if they have yet to be verified or edited.

Cynthia Solomon’s web site also contains vintage video from the 1970s that may be of interest.

Document	Year	Video?	Edited?	Audio Quality
“Talking Turtle,” a BBC documentary about Seymour Papert, Logo and learning.	1983	Yes	No	Excellent
Seymour Papert on Logo: New Mindstorms Tape 1 – Resonances — in these four commercial videos, Seymour Papert speaks with teachers about his powerful ideas.	1986	Yes	No	Excellent
Seymour Papert on Logo: New Mindstorms Tape 2 – Teaching	1986	Yes	No	Excellent
Seymour Papert on Logo: New Mindstorms Tape 3 – Thinking	1986	Yes	No	Excellent
Seymour Papert on Logo: New Mindstorms Tape 4 – Styles	1986	Yes	No	Excellent
Seymour Papert On Logo: Hurdles – Tape 1 – Grammar — commercial videos of Papert teaching Logo programming	1986	Yes	No	Excellent
Seymour Papert On Logo: Hurdles – Tape 2 – Names and Variables	1986	Yes	No	Excellent
Seymour Papert On Logo: Hurdles – Tape 3 – Images of Recursion	1986	Yes	No	Excellent
Seymour Papert On Logo: Hurdles – Tape 4 – Digging Deeper	1986	Yes	No	Excellent
LogoWriter Tape 1 — Seymour Papert teaches viewers to program in LogoWriter	1986	Yes	No	Excellent
LogoWriter Tape 2	1986	Yes	No	Excellent
Papert excerpts from an MIT Media Lab videodisc	c. 1986–87	Yes	No	Excellent
The Future of School, a conversation between Paulo Freire and Seymour Papert	Late 1980s	Yes	Yes	Excellent
Seymour Papert’s address upon being endowed as the LEGO Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab	1989	Yes	No	Excellent
Keynote address — New Jersey Educational Computing Conference	1990	Yes	No	Poor
Keynote address — Kids and Computers: What’s a Parent to Do? — MIT, September 1991	1991	Yes	No	Excellent
Keynote address — New Jersey Educational Computing Conference	1992	Yes	No	Poor
Keynote at National School Boards Conference	1994	Yes	Yes*	Excellent
Logosium 1994 speech — MIT	1994	Yes	In progress	Fair
Seymour Papert testifies before the US Congress	1995	Yes	No	Excellent
American Prospect panel discussion about the impact of the Internet on education, with Howard Gardner, Mitchel Resnick, Sherry Turkle, and Mitch Kapor	1996	Yes	Yes	Excellent
Learning in the Computer Age — a speech by Seymour Papert at the 92nd Street Y in New York City	1996	Yes	No	Very Good
Bridging the Digital Generation Gap — a talk by Seymour Papert at the San Francisco Exploratorium	1996	Yes	No	Excellent
Looking at Technology Through School Colored Spectacles from The Logo Exchange	1997	No	Yes	Text only
Seymour Papert on Generation YES and Kid Power	1998	Yes	May need tweaking	Excellent
Keynote address at MIT Mindfest	1999	Yes	Yes	Fair
A keynote about online learning for a conference in Italy that Seymour didn’t attend, but sent this short video	1999	Yes	Yes	Excellent
Keynote at California Computing Educators Conference — Palm Springs, CA	2000	Yes	Yes	Fair
Keynote at American Montessori Society Conference	2000	Yes	Yes	Good
Papert talks about middle school mathematics education — Palm Springs, CA (Mathstar project)	2000	Yes	Yes	Excellent
Millennial Lecture at the Muskie Archives — Bates College, Maine	2000	Yes	Yes	Excellent
Seymour Papert speaks informally with an audience of educators at Pepperdine University reception — Palm Springs, CA	2000	Yes	No	Fair
Seymour Papert speech to civic leaders on behalf of a laptop for every child in Maine	2001	Yes	Yes	Excellent
Seymour Papert on “Mathland” from the Squeakers DVD	2002	Yes	Yes	Excellent
Seymour Papert Interview (unused outtakes from the Squeakers DVD)	2002	Yes	No	Excellent
Keynote at 1:1 Computing Conference — Sydney	2004	Yes	May need tweaking	Excellent
Sunday Profile with Geraldine Doogue on Australian ABC Radio	2004	No	Yes	Excellent
Seymour Papert Keynote at Quebec City’s RIMA conference	2004	Yes	Yes	Excellent
Seymour Papert’s remarks at opening of the London Idea Lab	2004	Yes	May need tweaking	Excellent
Speech at American Educational Research Association — San Diego	c. 2004	Yes	Yes	Good
Seymour Papert addresses a post-Hurricane Katrina audience	c. 2005	Yes	Yes	Excellent
Squeakfest 2006 keynote (audio only)	2006	No	No	Excellent
Math and Logo Lecture at the University of Maine	c. 2006	Yes	Yes	Good
Seymour Papert Interview — One Laptop per Child (OLPC)	c. 2006	Yes	Yes	Excellent
Seymour Papert at the 2006 COSN Conference	2006	Yes	Not transcribed yet	Fair
Logo History Interview with Wally Feurzig, Cynthia Solomon, Celia Hoyles, and Gary Stager Papert not included	2010	Yes	Not transcribed yet	Excellent
MIT Media Lab Panel Discussion — Learning from Seymour Papert with Nicholas Negroponte, Alan Kay, Mitchel Resnick, and Marvin Minsky Papert not included	2014	Yes	Not transcribed yet	Excellent