I spent three years working on this paper, based on another forty years worth of experience, but alas, the biennial Constructionism Conference in Zurich, Switzerland allowed me 10 minutes to speak and 10 minutes to take questions. I am enormously proud of the short paper and the one-and-done quickie presentation went OK too. Neither the paper or the talk are about my friend, colleague, and mentor Dr. Seymour Papert, although I could spend a lifetime sharing his wisdom. I used his life and example as a metaphor for thinking about the health of a community that while concerned with “preaching to the converted,” is reaching far too few people.
Read the paper, Papert, Parables, and the Future of Constructionism – A constructionist call for action and its back story here.
Here are the slides from the paper presentation.
