Italy, March 2021. We are in the middle of a pandemic, schools are closed and, as a technology teacher, seeing children every day as Google Meet boxes is both hard and fascinating. Hard for obvious reasons: everyone is trying to talk, chatting, using the tool they have in their hands (and forced to use it)… Read more »
Category: Cohort 3 Fellows
Reflections on Seymour Papert’s article “The Gears of my Childhood”
I have read Seymour Papert’s article “The Gears of my Childhood” before and it always inspires the same questions. I feel I have only found a partial answer at the moment: What is meaningful? What triggers in children and/or adults the sense of involvement that allows them to “fall in love” with a project?… Read more »
Time to tinker
Gears! What comes easy to you? Love it, show it, Share. Connect, evolve, and have fun! When Seymore Papert tells his childhood story of his love for gears. He tells a story about a system of tangible objects that became obvious to him, though it would seem complex to others. Through play and love… Read more »
Reflecting on Parpet’s article “The gears of My childhood”
When reading the essay by Seymour Papert, “The gears of my childhood” to the online article as the preface to a book Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas (Basic Books, New York, 1980), I couldn’t help reflecting on my own purpose and work with education. For me, the story of the gears is also about… Read more »
Buildtopia
A little glimpse… Coming soon: A bit more information
Reflecting upon Dr Papert’s work “The Gears of My Childhood”
This is a personal reflection of Dr. Seymour Paperts work called “The Gears of My Childhood”. I’ve been in Maker education now for about 16 years and I truly believe that learning should be done through an array of modalities. I find that in my own life, I tend to learn better when I hear… Read more »
FabLearn Fellows – Winter 2020/2021
So there’s a lot happening behind the scenes with the FabLearn Fellows! The new cohort is starting to meet, virtually, of course. New blog posts and videos will be coming soon. We are in the very early stages of planning Volume 3 of the Meaningful Making book series. And the previous cohorts of FabLearn Fellows… Read more »
Papert’s Eight Big Ideas translated to Arabic
In 1999, Seymour Papert, the father of educational technology, embarked on his last ambitious institutional research project when he created the constructionist, technology-rich, project-based, multi-aged Constructionist Learning Laboratory inside of Maine’s troubled prison for teens, The Maine Youth Center. As Gary Stager shares in the book, Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, Papert outlined these… Read more »