Seymour Papert

...shapes or even an animation. It is part of a large set of dialects and implementations of Logo originating from the invention of Seymour Papert and aimed at triggering the development of abstract ideas by children through experimentation. As...

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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980), published by Basic Books, is a book by Seymour Papert. He proposes a unique computer-based learning environment called the Microworld. His primary belief about the Microworld's...

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Seymour Papert (born February 29, 1928 in Pretoria, South Africa) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist , and educator . He is one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language .

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...world. In this sense, constructionism is connected with experiential learning and builds on some of the ideas of Jean Piaget. Seymour Papert defined constructionism in a proposal to the entitled as follows: "The word constructionism is a...

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...classes, instances, methods, ivars and a lot of brackets, curly and square. In another lifetime I had a summer job at BBN, where Seymour Papert and Wally Feurzeig were developing Logo, a dialect of the programming language Lisp. Logo was...

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING THANK YOU for your article on Seymour Papert's encouraging progress ("In search of a beautiful mind," Page A1, July 12). I got to know Seymour as a director of One Laptop Per Child. In...

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...to teach children about computers. Now he must learn something even more challenging - how to be Seymour Papert again. Nineteen months ago he was struck by a motorbike in Hanoi and suffered a brain injury so severe he was comatose for a...

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MicroWorlds JR is an iconic version of Logo that teaches non-readers or early readers to program in Logo. Logo was created by Seymour Papert to provide children with a robust computer language with which to explore mathematical concepts.

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...Web site. For more information on U.S. policy, see Science and Technology. USINFO also held a series of webchats with experts Seymour Papert, Derek Bambauer and Shalini Venturelli November 14-16 on how low-cost laptops, cell phones and...

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...are already standard. "It will change . . . the way children everywhere think about themselves in relation to the world," said Seymour Papert, a professor emeritus of education and media technology at MIT, believing that the result may be...

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