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Companion web site to Papert's new book, The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap, Longstreet Press, 1996; for parents and teachers (and kids) interested in the profound changes in learning brought about by the explosion of computers in the home.
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Expert on how technology can provide new ways to learn, his contributions go beyond education: mathematician and cofounder with Marvin Minsky of MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, founding faculty member of MIT Media Lab, where he works now. Worked for many years with Jean Piaget at University of Geneva, Switzerland.
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People laughed at Seymour Papert in the sixties when he talked about children using computers as instruments for learning and for enhancing creativity. The idea of an inexpensive personal computer was then science fiction. But Papert was conducting serious research in his capacity as a professor at
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Interview at The Matrix: MEME 2.13. Treats Papert's favorite topics: children, computers and the end of schools as we know them.
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A CONVERSATION WITH SEYMOUR PAPERT.
On Tuesday, October 15, I met
in the lobby of a mid-town
hotel in Manhattan, where we spent the morning discussing children, computers and
schools. Professor Papert teaches at the
and for most of his career he's pursued a mission to
redefine how children
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Growing biography, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
February 29, 1928 ( 1928-02-29 ) (age 81)
Seymour Papert (born February 29, 1928 in
. He is one of the pioneers of
, as well as an inventor of the
] Early years and education
, receiving a B.A. in 1949 and a PhD in
in 1952. He then went on to receive
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Page of over 2 dozen links to Websites, documents. By educator Gary S. Stager.
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Seymour Papert's long-lost 1990 speech (transcript) on school transformation,
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Mathematician and pioneer in artificial intelligence, has radical ideas about how the education system should be overhauled. Text of radio interview, on ABC Local; Australia.
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, a mathematician and pioneer in artificial intelligence, has radical ideas about how the education system should be overhauled.
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Brief highlights text of Papert keynote address at Squeakfest 2006. InnovationCreation weblog.
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is in Chicago again this year. The key note, Dr. Seymour Papert, presented to a close group his thoughts on education as it stands today and what must be done to really change. He said some very thought
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Papert was a founding faculty member of the Media Lab, and now works there part-time. The Media Lab site has been hard to reach lately and is often inaccessible, but be patient and keep at it: it is well worthwhile.
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Dr. Seymour Papert is a mathemetician and one of the early pioneers of Artificial Intelligence. Additionally, he is internationally recognized as the seminal thinker about ways in which computers can change learning. Born and educated in South Africa where he participated actively in the
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