http://www.metafilter.com/tags/papert Posts tagged with 'papert' at MetaFilter. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:33:32 -0800 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:33:32 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/73337/They%2Dwere%2Dapplying%2Dhis%2Down%2Dparadigms%2Dfor%2Dlearning <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Papert">Papert</a>, who was a professor of mathematics, education, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQCZa8MyWIg">media technology</a> at MIT, has devoted <a href="http://www.stager.org/planetpapert.html">much of his career</a> to learning: self-learning (he taught himself Russian) and <a href="http://www.thelearningbarn.org/AboutUs.html">learning about learning</a>. He was one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence, and he invented<a href="http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/logo/index.html"> the computer language Logo</a> to teach children about computers. <a href="http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2008/07/12/in_search_of_a_beautiful_mind/?page=1">Now he must learn something even more challenging - how to be Seymour Papert again.</a></em> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73337 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:33:32 -0800 brain learning logo mit olpc papert professor seymour Horace Rumpole