{"id":6256,"date":"2016-08-03T10:32:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T10:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6256"},"modified":"2016-08-03T10:32:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T10:32:53","slug":"professor-emeritus-seymour-papert-pioneer-of-constructionist-learning-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6256","title":{"rendered":"Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, pioneer of constructionist learning, dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2016\/seymour-papert-pioneer-of-constructionist-learning-dies-0801\"><img src='https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/seymour-papert-lego-mindstorms-mit-media-lab.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Humanist and then MIT News, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2016\/seymour-papert-pioneer-of-constructionist-learning-dies-0801\">Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, pioneer of constructionist learning, dies at 88<\/a>. Papert was Piaget&#8217;s student and thought about how computers could provide children a way to construct knowledge. Among other things he developed the <a href=\"http:\/\/el.media.mit.edu\/logo-foundation\/what_is_logo\/history.html\">Logo language<\/a> that I learned at one point. He also collaborated with the LEGO folk on Mindstorms, named after his book by that title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Humanist and then MIT News, Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, pioneer of constructionist learning, dies at 88. Papert was Piaget&#8217;s student and thought about how computers could provide children a way to construct knowledge. Among other things he developed the Logo language that I learned at one point. He also collaborated with the LEGO folk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, pioneer of constructionist learning, dies at 88<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,3,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computers-and-education","category-foundations-of-computing","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-interface-design-and-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6265,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions\/6265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}