Seymour Papert

Felipe Morera Technology in education: Whats to gain? I remember the year before graduating seeing the hundreds of I pads my school bought to be used in the school environment. It took about 3 months for the I pads to be set up to be used in class. After finally being set up it gave students the opportunity to do their essays in class but also led to many distractions. But as technology is slowly spreading across all grade levels does technology help facilitate learning? I bring this up…

in education works and who it benefits. Education reform has been happening since schools began. Controversies about technology in the classroom go back to when televisions were introduced into the classroom. In the 1960s a professor from MIT, Seymour Papert, collaborated with psychologist Jean Piaget to develop Logo Programming Language for children. Suzie Boss describes the benefits of the Logo Programming program, “They not only gained deeper understanding of geometry concepts along with…

some way or another; to be used in learning and teaching. Even so, it is prudent to understand where the vision all began. Among those who first envisioned the potential that technology had in classrooms and education in general was Professor Seymour Papert of MIT (Stahl, Koschmann, & Suthers, 2006). In collaboration with Jean Piaget, they made the initial steps towards introducing children to technology. They came up with a simple programming language known as Logo (Stahl, Koschmann, & Suthers,…

Although gaming with friends and going to conventions can be fun, staying at home and playing games with family brings enjoyment too. Seeing mother and father’s reactions to a game can cause children to laugh and have fun. Now that board games and puzzles have been made obsolete, video games were bound to target family fun. Many games have been created specifically for families to enjoy. One way to tell if a game is appropriate for family fun would involve looking at the game’s rating. The…