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Seymour Papert (born March 1, 1928 Pretoria, South Africa) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and large educator. He is one of a pioneers of artificial intelligence, as well as an discoverer of the Logo programming language (1968).
About Papert
The creator of an interesting & original visiin on learning known as Constructionism, built upon a act of Jean Piaget (Constructivism). Reconsideration how else schools should act according to these theories of learning. As well center in the impact of recently technologies on learning in the main & schools as a learning organisation particularly.
Has been known as (by Marvin Minsky) "the greatest living mathematics educator" [cover of Mindstorms]
A advocator of the Knowledge Machine.
Worked using Jean Piaget in a period of a 1960 & is widely considered the virtually all brilliant & successful of Piaget's proteges. Piaget when said that "no one understand my ideas as well as Papert." [Direct Observation]
Influenced Alan Kay and the Dynabook concept.
Created a Epistemology & Learning Research Group and the MIT Media Lab
Influenced a reserach of Idit Harel Caperton - collaborated on search grants & promulgated together [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=cache:uiN8ZG2i2pQJ:www.cs.uml.edu/~fredm/cher/el-publications/EL-Memos/memo7.PS.Z+Papert+and+Harel articles], & a book Constructionism; and has been a Advisory Board Chair of her company MaMaMedia.
A collaborator by having LEGO on their Logo-programmable Lego Mindstorms robotics kits.
Was the leading figure in the radical socialist revolve around Socialist Review while living in London in the Fifties.
Books by Papert
Mindstorms: Tikes, Computers, & Mighty Ideas ISBN 0465046746
Perceptrons, (by owning Marvin Minsky), MIT Click, 1969 (Enlarged edition, 1988).
Achievements
Seymour Papert used Piaget's work when getting a Logo programming language. He created Logotype as a tool to improve they way that children think and solve a problems. The little robot called “Logo Turtle” was developed and children have been encouraged to solve the condition sustaining Logo turtle. The independent purpose of the Logo Foundation [http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/]a food and drug administration class action is to strengthen the ability to learn the knowledge. Seymour Papert insists a language or program that children can learn does not keep around to lack functionality for adept users.
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Papert.org: Professor Seymour Papert
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.
ConnectedFamily.com
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.
The Children's Machine by Seymour Papert
One educator's positive review of Papert's book: '[His] philosophy of learning contrasts sharply with his depiction of schools' epistemology'.
School's Out? A Conversation with Seymour Papert
Interview at The Matrix: MEME 2.13. Treats Papert's favorite topics: children, computers and the end of schools as we know them.
MIT Coop: Seymour Papert
Papert's 'Faculty Author Listing' of an online bookstore for the MIT community.
MIT Media Lab: Seymour Papert
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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