Monday, October 8, 2007

Seymour Papert


In 1997 Papert received the Computer world Smithsonian award for leadership in education. The Seymour Papert is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and a source for education. Seymour Papert is artifical intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language.
These days Papert is considered the world's foremost expert on on how technology can provide new ways to learn.
He has carried out educational projects on every continent some of in remote, villages in developing countries.
Papert lives in Maine, where he has funded a small laboratory called the Learning Barn to develop methods of learning that are too far head of the times for large-scale implementation.

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