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March 5, 2014
“The essence of Piaget was how much learning occurs without being planned or organized by teachers or schools. His whole point was that children develop intellectually without being taught!” “Papert...
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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 do Logo kids get confused about whether “turn” in Logo means turning this way...
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March 10, 2014
“Math really is boring for most people because it is not connected with their interests and their fantasies. You can’t make it part of your dreams.” Papert, Seymour (2005) “A conversation with Seymour...
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March 31, 2014
“So, too, the mega-change in education that will undoubtedly come in the next few decades will not be a “reform” in the sense of a deliberate attempt to impose a new designed structure. My confidence...
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April 30, 2014
“Throughout this essay, I use the word “mathematics” as a stand in for all disciplines. I use the word “math” to refer to the largely obsolete stuff they teach in schools.” Papert, S. (2006). After How...
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May 2, 2014 – Bonus Content
On April, 24, 2014, the MIT Media Lab hosted a forum, “Learning from Seymour Papert,” featuring long-time friends and colleagues, Nicholas Negroponte, Alan Kay, and Marvin Minsky, along with one of...
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May 12, 2014
This page from Cyberneticzoo.com tells the history of the mechanical Logo turtle. Tweet This Post
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May 14, 2014
“Across the globe there is a love affair between children and the digital technologies. They love the computers, they love the phones, they love the game machines, and – most relevantly here – their...
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The Collected Writings of Seymour Papert (thus far)
Will Richardson has done a great deal of work updating the collected writings of Seymour Papert with the help of DailyPapert.com This will be updated as new documents are unearthed. If you have any of...
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It All Starts with Seymour Papert
The MIT Media Lab is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Seymour Papert was one of the founders of the Media Lab and in this video created by LEGO, his influence on learning and technology for children....
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A Heartfelt Tribute to Seymour Papert
Papert thinking through an engineering challenge with an at-risk student “The world lost an amazing wit, intellect, inventor, bricoleur, scholar, freedom fighter, and friend with the passing of Seymour...
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June 26, 2017
Seymour Papert: One of the negative … one of the big problems about computers in Maine and this is a continuing problem, we got … say we are assimilated into this local state group that it was The...
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June 27, 2017
Seymour Papert (early 200s): And by the way something that we’ve seen that’s incredibly encouraging is that there’s a lot of fear that computers can mean … teachers are afraid to give up control in...
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March 24, 2020
”We’re moving into a time when people need to know how to learn things they weren’t taught in school. Second, we now have the technology to let kids learn better. This will not just allow them to learn...
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March 31, 2014
“So, too, the mega-change in education that will undoubtedly come in the next few decades will not be a “reform” in the sense of a deliberate attempt to impose a new designed structure. My confidence...
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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. The transcription of the video may be found here. Tweet This PostThe post...
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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...
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Seymour Papert’s Opening of the London Knowledge Lab (2004)
Professor Seymour Papert was one of the invited speakers. Full video at https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/3004 Video: Opening of the London Knowledge Lab “Thank you and I owe you a debt too and I...
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October 18, 2021
“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. Tweet...
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New Book Honors the Legacy of Seymour Papert
All-star team of experts author book fifty years in the making This book may be the most important EdTech book in memory. I am enormously proud to not only share it with the world, but gratified to...
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