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Seymour Papert

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What it is

A short vintage film clip of Seymour Papert, creator of Logo, on using computers to spark children's imagination and learning.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a glimpse of Papert's vision of computers as tools for learning, shared especially after his death.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2017

What HN commenters said

  1. “I firmly believe that we'd all be better off if THIS guy had been the one to introduce computers to the common man”

    Papert's vision of computers for learning.

    daveloyall, 2014-11 · Recommendation · in “Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform”

  2. “is a great video from the early days of LOGO”

    Early LOGO video pushing programming for all.

    pfooti, 2016-08 · Recommendation · in “Seymour Papert has died”

  3. “One really powerful idea he had was ensuring that we stay "somatic" with our computer instruction”

    Papert on keeping computer instruction somatic and physical.

    kickscondor, 2017-01 · Recommendation · in “Thinking about Thinking about Seymour: Livestream [video]”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: seymour papert, logo, education, constructionism, computing history

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