The Mavens:

• C.A. Bowers

• Bonnie Bracey

• Colleen Cordes

• Larry Cuban

• Hall Davidson

• Odvard Egil Dyrli

• Jane Healy

• Ian Jukes

• Daniel Kinnaman

• Cheryl Lemke

• Judy Lightfoot

• Ted McCain

• Jamie McKenzie

• Susan McLester

• Alan November

• Ted Nellen

• Jason Ohler

• Todd Oppenheimer

• Seymour Papert

• Bernajean Porter

• Neil Postman

• William Rukeyser

• Ferdi Serim

• Gary Stager

• Clifford Stoll

• Stephen Talbott

• Edward Tenner

• Don Tapscott

• David Thornburg

• Alan Warhaftig

• David Warlick

Seymour Papert Links

Technology in the Schools: To support the system or render it obsolete http://www.mff.org/edtech/article.taf?_function=detail&Content_uid1=106

Mr. papert states, "as long as schools confine the technology to simply improving what they are doing rather than really changing the system, nothing very significant will happen." Find out more in this great article from the Milken Family Foundation.

Planet Papert - http://www.stager.org/planetpapert.html

A deep list of articles, interviews and books by and about Seymour Papert. Updated Regularly!

Papert.com - http://www.papert.com/

Great summary of Papert's work and links to many resources. There are several photos also.

Works by Seymour Papert - http://www.papert.com/works.html

A chronological list of major works by Papert.

The Connected Family Website - http://www.ConnectedFamily.com/

The website associated with the book.

Child Power: Keys to the New Learning of the Digital Century - http://www.ConnectedFamily.com/main_alt.html

A speech delivered to at the 11th Colin Cherry Memorial Lecture on Communication, at Imperial College, London. Video and audio are available here.

Papert NEA Today interview - http://www.nea.org/neatoday/9710/seyweb.html

Mr. Papert was featured in the Innovators section of October's NEA Today in October 1997.

Papert Essays - http://www.connectedfamily.com/frame4/cf0413seymour/recent_essays/cf0413_main.html

A series of essays produced in 1998 and 1999.

A Captive Audience Learn Tech - http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,38488,00.html?tw=wn20000907

Learn more about how Mr. papert is assisting some teens in a Maine youth facility with technology.

Seymour Papert Books*

Mindstorms : Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas by Seymour A. Papert, John Sculley (Designer) 2nd edition , March 1999 , Basic Books (Short Disc); ISBN: 0465046746

The Connected Family : Bridging the Digital Generation Gap by Seymour A. Papert, Nicholas Negroponte, Book & Cd edition ,October 1996, Longstreet Press; ISBN: 1563523353

The Children's Machine : Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer by Seymour Papert, Reprint edition ,May 1994, Basic Books (Short Disc); ISBN: 0465010636

Perceptrons : Introduction to Computational Geometry by Marvin L. Minsky, Seymour A. Papert (Contributor) Expanded edition (May 1988) MIT Press; ISBN: 0262631113

 

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