Emeritus Seymour Papert, who died July He developed the Logo programming language for children, who initially used it to program and animate a small robot turtle. Previous item Next item.
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Browse By. Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, pioneer of constructionist learning, dies at World-renowned mathematician, learning theorist, and educational-technology visionary was a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab. Watch Video. MIT Media Lab. Publication Date :. Press Inquiries. Press Contact : Alexandra Kahn. Email: akahn media. Phone: Caption :. Credits :. That he is widely considered the father of a movement that espouses play and games as an integral part of learning—any learning—may seem incongruous.
While a visionary, he was also very much a realist. Just like a good video game, he, too, was unpredictable, full of surprises, and a fount of unexpected, sharply intuitive expressions and original terms to describe learning at its best. My thinking sessions with Seymour were always playful, and often generated unexpected brain waves, fun out-of-the-box concepts, and countless original ideas.
I always envied how he could talk, tell stories, and write about big ideas in simple, jargon-free terms. Seymour coined the term to advance a new theory of learning, claiming that children learn best when they.
His theory stems from the work of education innovators such as John Dewey, Maria Montessori, and Paulo Freire; but most of all, Jean Piaget, the genius genetic epistemologist with whom he worked in to in Switzerland. Seymour wanted to help kids from all racial, social, and economic backgrounds improve their learning and thinking. In his view, there is hope for every child. As a young child in South Africa, he developed an obsession with cars.
He was proud about knowing all the parts of the transmission system, the gearbox, and most especially the differential. Gears fueled one of the central ideas behind Constructionism: thinking about thinking while playing with objects, and imagining being inside them or becoming these objects, can enable children to concretely understand big, complex ideas. Falling in love can happen more easily with objects invented and designed by oneself. Enter computers.
Because, it can take on a thousand forms and can serve a thousand functions, it can appeal to a thousand tastes. Idit Harel. She is a pioneer in using new-media technology for cultivating creative learning, innovation, and globalization through constructionist learning theory , and also, a former student of his. She was a little overweight, and the other kids looked down on her for that reason. But then she made a discovery about how to do something on the computer.
The discovery was picked up by other kids, and within a few weeks there was a total transformation. This kid was now in demand. And that changed her feeling about herself. In a way, we try to apply in every new version of CoderZ exactly what Seymour Papert wanted to happen: Allow every child to have to possibility to learn how to program in an environment that creates problem solving abilities by learning more through less traditional teaching methods.
Papert identified that much earlier than us, by changing the way of teaching and by shifting the mindset of scientists and teachers around the world.
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