December 2006

Light a candle, say prayer, whatever makes sense to you

Seymour Papert, one of the fathers of education technology, disciple of Jean Piaget, one of the leaders behind MIT's Media Lab, the one laptop per child initiative, constructionism, Logo, Mindstorms... was hit by a motorcycle outside his hotel in Hanoi, suffered a head injury, got emergency neurosurgery and is in a comma in Vietnam. Papert's inspirational writing and thinking has moved many of us. Papert, 78, is still a leader in the educational technology world and we all wish for his recovery.