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Squeakfest 2006 Report
Brief summary text of Papert keynote address at this event. Shiftin’ Paradigm Blues weblog.
Seymour Papert
Growing biography, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
Seymour Papert in Sydney 2004
Speech given at i3 1 to 1 Computing Conference, sponsored by Apple Computer; Sydney, Australia. QuickTime show.
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.
Seymour Papert: Sunday Profile
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.
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.
Innovation in Education
Brief highlights text of Papert keynote address at Squeakfest 2006. InnovationCreation weblog.
MaMaMedia.com
Place for kids and families to make cartoons, play challenging games, make odd creatures, paint digital pictures, design and send animated cards; discover by doing and create by clicking; all based on constructionist learning theory. Created with Papert's help.
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.
Professor Seymour Papert: Papert.org
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.
Planet Papert
Page of over 2 dozen links to Websites, documents. By educator Gary S. Stager.
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'.
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