Browsing AI Memos (1959 - 2004) by Author "Papert, Seymour A."

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    • Some Poetic and Social Criteria for Education Design 

      Papert, Seymour A. (1976-06-01)
      Ten years is in some ways a challenging and in some ways a very awkward period for predicting the impact of computers in education. If you asked me whether the practice of education will have undergone a fundamental ...

    • The Summer Vision Project 

      Papert, Seymour A. (1966-07-01)
      The summer vision project is an attempt to use our summer workers effectively in the construction of a significant part of a visual system. The particular task was chosen partly because it can be segmented into sub-problems ...

    • Teaching Children Thinking 

      Papert, Seymour A. (1971-10-01)
      This paper is dedicated to the hope that someone with power to act will one day see that contemporary research on education is like the following experiment by a nineteenth century engineer who worked to demonstrate that ...

    • Teaching Children to be Mathematicians vs. Teaching About Mathematics 

      Papert, Seymour A. (1971-07-01)
      Being a mathematician is no more definable as 'knowing' a set of mathematical facts than being a poet is definable as knowing a set of linguistic facts. Some modern math ed reformers will give this statement a too easy ...

    • Twenty Things To Do With A Computer 

      Papert, Seymour A.; Solomon, Cynthia (1971-06-01)
      When people talk about computers in education they do not all have the same image in mind. Some think of using the computer to program the kid; others think of using the kid to program the computer. But most of them have ...

    • Unrecognizable Sets of Numbers 

      Minsky, Marvin; Papert, Seymour A. (1964-11-01)
      When is a set A of positive integers, represented as binary numbers, "regular" in the sense that it is a set of sequences that can be recognized by a finite-state machine? Let pie A(n) be the number of members of A less ...

    • Uses of Technology to Enhance Education 

      Papert, Seymour A. (1973-06-01)
      Section 1: Schematic outline of project and what we want. Hardly any intellectual content. Section 2: Statement of our goals in general terms. This statement is intended to have serious intellectual content but lacks meaty ...