Thursday, April 12, 2007

Seymour Papert

Seymour Papert is a famous mathmatician, and was very interested on how children learn and think. He was born in South African, later attended Cambridge University. One of his greatest accomplishments was the founding the logo programming language. It was mainly created for educational purposes and is also known as the "Turtle graphics."

As of today he lives in Maine, then founded a small laboratory. He called the Learning Barn. This was made to develope learning Methods. He is a professor at the University of Maine. In his spare time he works at the Maine Youth Center for troubled teens.

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