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... Read More
February 29, 2020 – Happy Birthday Seymour!
“When people claim that my vision of education does away with teachers, I get very upset. That turns on its head what I’ve been trying to say. Schools give teachers very little opportunity to teach. They spend most of their time brainwashing or forcing children to do rote activities nobody believes in. In the kind of learning environment I envision, teachers can really teach.” Greth, C. V. (2983). Seymour... Read More
January 17, 2017
Seymour Papert makes several profound points in this very short clip from a 1991 conference keynote. The complete video, along with its... Read More
Seymour Papert on Logo
This commercial video, produced around 1986, features Seymour Papert answering questions from teachers. This discussion explores many of Papert’s recurring themes of... Read More
Papert Excerpt from MIT Media Lab Videodisc
The following excerpt of Seymour Papert speaking comes from a videodisc produced by the MIT Media Lab circa 1986-87. Transcript Seymour Papert:... Read More
May 1, 2014
“Everyone works with procedures in everyday life. Playing a game or giving directions to a lost motorist are exercises in procedural thinking.... Read More
April 28, 2014
“Approaching Logo as an idea in development rather than a fixed thing to be judged has placed me in a third position... Read More
March 6, 2014
“I noticed that a lot of the discussion of computers was dominated by questions like, just to take one example, when they... Read More
August 24, 2012
“The word educology reminds us that we need a theory of education. One might say theories already exist. There is educational psychology;... 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