The LEGO Papert Fellowships.
Papert was“a silent type of teacher”.
One of my favorite quotes is from MIT professor Seymour Papert.
The below video describes the long collaboration between Papert and Lego:.
MIT Press and the Papert Family have made available Seymour Papert's book,
Mindstorms, as a free PDF.
It's great how the LEGO Papert Fellowships are enabling current graduate students
to build on Seymour's work and ideas.".
The LEGO Papert Fellowships support three graduate students each year
who are working at the intersection of creativity, play, learning, and new technologies.
Each year, the LEGO Papert Fellowship funds the work of three graduate students
who are working at the intersection of creativity, play, learning, and new technologies.
We always look forward to the thinking and new ideas that the Papert Fellows bring in helping us on our mission to re-define play
and re-imagining learning.".
Papert thought deeply about the use of computers in education
and he was an advocate that students learn to program computers- to learn to think in its language.
Influenced by Papert, she started Robofun 20 years ago,
which teaches STEM to over 20,000 children in a private studio on the Upper West side of Manhattan and in over 100 schools across New York City.
In fact, the MIT Media Lab was co-founded by visionaries like Seymour Papert and Marvin Minsky,
who both believed that young generations could inspire us to think and learn with and about technology in different ways.
To do this, Papert created Logo,
the first programming language for children(and a precursor of Scratch)- back when computers were still the size of an entire room and only available to a handful of researchers in academic centers.
Researchers at MIT(such as Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert) found that solving difficult problems in vision
and natural language processing required ad-hoc solutions- they argued that there was no simple and general principle(like logic) that would capture all the aspects of intelligent behavior.