Seymour Papert
Trabalho realizado por:
Ana Mafalda Teixeira, Ana Sofia Pires e Márcia Sousa
Vida e Obra
• 1928 - Nasceu em África do Sul
• Década de 50
– Participou activamente no movimento anti-apartheid
– Frequentou a Universidade de Witwaterstrand
– 1954 – 1958 - Desenvolveu projectos de investigação Matemática
na Universidade de Cambridge
• 1958 – 1963 - Trabalhou com Jean Piaget na Universidade de
Genebra
• 1964 – fundou o Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial no MIT em
colaboração com Marvin Minsky
• 1967 – criou a linguagem de computador “LOGO”
• Década de 80
– definiu a teoria chamada "Constructionism", baseada no
trabalho de Jean Piaget, John Dewey e Maria Montessori
– Colaborou com a LEGO na construção de uma linha de robótica
para crianças
• 1970 – foi co-autor do seminário Perceptrons
• 1980 – Escreveu Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful
Ideas
• 1985 – fundou o Media Laboratory no MIT
• 1993 – Escreveu The Children’s Machine: Rethinking
• School in the Age of the Computer
• 1996 – Escreveu The Connected Family: bridging the digital
generation gap
• 1999 – Estabeleceu o Learning Barn e o Seymour Papert Institute,
Blue Hill, Maine.
• 2001 – foi nomeado um dos maiores inovadores na educação
• 2002 – 2003 – tentou implementar o uso de computadores nas aulas
do sétimo e oitavo ano no estado de Maine
"Now I Know Why We Have
Nouns and Verbs"
“As she "taught" the computer to generate poetry,
she found herself dividing words into categories,
not because she had been told to, but because she
needed to.”
“She not only "understood" grammar, she made it
"her own", taking it over as a tool.”
Papert Vs Stoll
“What Jenny learned
about grammar from
this experience with a
machine was anything
but mechanical.”
"Now I Know Why We Have Nouns and Verbs"
By Seymour Papert
“I have no doubt that though
we're teaching our children how
to use computers, we're also
teaching them that when you
have a problem, the first thing
you should do is turn to a
computer to solve it.”
High-Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the
Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian,
written by Clifford Stoll
Fontes
• http://www.media.mit.edu/people/bio_papert.html
• http://web.media.mit.edu/~papert/
• http://fundamentalchange.carolstrohecker.info/documents/PapertBio
May04.pdf
• http://www.papert.org/articles/Nowiknowwhy.html
Consulta realizada em 07/03/2006