Seymour Papert (1928–2016)
Autor/a de Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
Sobre l'autor
Seymour Aubrey Papert was born in Pretoria, South Africa on February 29, 1928. He received doctorates from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and the University of Cambridge in England. After his doctoral work, he spent four years at the University of Geneva exploring both mostra'n més mathematics and children's learning as a researcher for Jean Piaget. In 1964, he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty and immediately delved into artificial intelligence research with Marvin Minsky. He was a co-director of the renowned Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Papert and Minsky published Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry in 1969. Papert foresaw children using computers as instruments for learning and enhancing creativity well before the advent of the personal computer. In the late 1960's, he created a computer programming language, called Logo, to teach children how to use computers. He wrote several other books including Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas and Constructionism written with Idit Harel. Papert retired from the faculty at M.I.T. in 1996, but continued to work there as a lecturer and consultant to doctoral students. He died from complications of a series of kidney and bladder infections on July 31, 2016 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Seymour Papert
Obres de Seymour Papert
The Lattices of Logic and Topology 1 exemplars
Logo: Computadores e Educação 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Constructionist Learning; 5th Anniversary Collection of Papers — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Papert, Seymour Aubrey
- Data de naixement
- 1928-02-29
- Data de defunció
- 2016-07-31
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- South Africa (birth)
USA - Lloc de naixement
- Pretoria, South Africa
- Lloc de defunció
- Blue Hill, Maine, USA
- Causa de la mort
- kidney and bladder infections
- Llocs de residència
- Pretoria, South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa
Geneva, Switzerland
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Blue Hill, Maine, USA - Educació
- University of the Witwatersrand (BA, Philosophy)
University of the Witwatersrand (PhD, Mathematics)
Cambridge University (PhD, Mathematics)
University of Geneva - Professions
- mathematician
computer scientist - Relacions
- Minsky, Marvin (colleague)
Piaget, Jean (employer) - Organitzacions
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Logo Foundation
Artificial Intelligence Group (co-director)
One Laptop Per Child
Membres
Ressenyes
After reading the intro, you'll think this was written in 2010 - not 1980! Why and how did these ideas get lost? Why don't school incorporate these ideas as we launch computer science to all US schools? "Why?," I ask.
This extraordinary book was written at least ten years before its time. When it was written, there was not the computing power to support the ideas and concepts in it.
When I initially wrote this review, both Minsky and Papert were still alive. Now they're both gone. The world is a smaller, poorer place without them.
Connectionism (later on termed neural networks) began here.
When I initially wrote this review, both Minsky and Papert were still alive. Now they're both gone. The world is a smaller, poorer place without them.
Connectionism (later on termed neural networks) began here.
Collection of articles on implementing new techniques for education
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 13
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 901
- Popularitat
- #28,454
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 7
- ISBN
- 41
- Llengües
- 10
- Preferit
- 2
The five star parts are where Papert gets into the philosophy that drove the creation of LOGO - his thoughts about how learning occurs, why it's important to empower children to think about their own thinking, and his vision for a "learning society." It reads like a manifesto and goes so much past "hey, let's put computers in schools, it'll be great." He also showed me the power of thinking about environments as sources of "raw materials" for learning. There's certainly a lot more to chew on in these parts, and I need to think more and read it again.
The four star parts, for me, are anecdotes about how LOGO works towards reaching his goals. They're fun but not so inspirational.… (més)