Seymour Papert

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Seymour Papert was a pioneering mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-inventing the Logo programming language and advancing constructionist learning theories in education technology.

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instanceOf MIT professor
computer scientist
education theorist
educator
human
mathematician
academicAdvisor Jean Piaget
advocated children programming computers rather than being programmed by them
awardReceived IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award
Marconi Prize
coFounded MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT Media Lab
coInvented Logo programming language
countryOfCitizenship South Africa
United States of America
dateOfBirth 1928-02-29
dateOfDeath 2016-07-31
degree PhD in mathematics
developedTheory constructionism
educatedAt University of Cambridge NERFINISHED
University of the Witwatersrand
era 20th century
21st century
fieldOfWork artificial intelligence
education
educational technology
mathematics education
fullName Seymour Aubrey Papert
influenced Scratch programming language
design of programming languages for children
educational technology movement
influencedBy Jean Piaget
knownFor co-inventing the Logo programming language
constructionism (learning theory)
pioneering educational uses of computers
work in child-computer interaction
mentored Mitchel Resnick
nationality South African-American
notableWork Constructionism (edited volume)
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
The Children’s Machine
placeOfBirth Pretoria, South Africa
placeOfDeath Blue Hill, Maine, United States
promoted use of computers as tools for thinking and learning
researchInterest how children learn mathematics
programming as a medium for learning
theorized children learn effectively by making and constructing
workedAt Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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