# Seymour Papert

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Ep 256: Damian Bebell Ph.D: Lessons from Seymour Papert, Meaningful Data and Small Shifts That Transform Schools.

For more than two decades, Damian has worked alongside teachers, school leaders and policymakers to explore how research and thoughtful reflection can strengthen teaching and learning in technology-rich classrooms. As a research professor at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Deve…

Reanimating the Art of Teaching w/ Gary Stager

There’s a quote from the great conservationist John Muir that goes, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." My guest today, Gary Stager, has been working in education since before I was born, and I turn 40 this summer, so the sense that y…

Episode 30 - The Future is Computational (Lithuanian Keynote)

In this episode, educator, author, and pioneer in educational computing Gary Stager delivers a keynote address to a conference of educators in Lithuania, making the case that the future belongs to those who can think and create computationally. Gary unpacks why making — especially computational mak…

Overhyping Tech & AI in Education - A Conversation with Dr. Gary Stager

As an elementary teacher by training, Dr. Gary Stager has taught students from preschool through doctoral studies. In 1990, Gary led professional development in the world’s first laptop schools and played a major role in the early days of online education. Gary is the founder of the Constructing Mo…

Talking AI, Seymour Papert, and Learning Sciences with Northwestern Professor Uri Wilensky

In this episode of PCWB, we talk with Northwestern Professor Uri Wilensky, recent recipient of the Yidan Prize. We discuss his intellectual journey, the evolution of learning sciences, agent-based modeling and computational thinking, and how computers can help us better understand complex societal …

Mitch Resnik on “Lifelong Kindergarten”

MIT Media Lab’s Mitchel Resnick speaks with us about the development of his Lifelong Kindergarten research group and their efforts to affect the educational landscape through creative technological activities. Throughout the conversation, we describe the shifts in academic environments, starting fr…

427: Try this Colorful Maker Tool: Digital Idea Blocks

Walk into an expensive "Innovation Lab" or High Tech Cutting Edge University Makerspace, and you'll probably see a laser cutter, a 3D printer or two, all kinds of expensive technology and the adjacent software and screens that make it possible. That's cool. But that's also a high barrier …

Play, Curiosity, and Human Strengths in AI Learning

In this episode, we explore why play, experimentation, and “hard fun” are powerful ways to learn with AI, not just about it. Episode 2, Play, Curiosity, and Human Strengths in AI Learning, looks at curiosity as a core human strength that drives discovery, innovation, and lifelong learning, and conn…

430: What you Need to Know about Design Thinking for ELA

Design thinking is a framework for creating things. And creating things, as Semour Papert argued in his theory of constructionism, is the kind of "hard fun" that engages people in meaningful work that helps them stretch themselves (Resnick). As his colleague at the MIT media lab, Mitchell Resnick…

Learning Is Something the Learner Does: Rethinking Education with Dr. Gary Stager

In this episode of Crunch Time, host Joel Smith, Founder & CEO of TeachCraft, welcomes Dr. Gary Stager, Founder and CEO of Constructing Modern Knowledge, for a wide-ranging conversation about what meaningful learning actually looks like. Drawing on more than four decades as a teacher educator, rese…