Seymour Papert is the inventor of Logo and according to Marvin Minksy, another MIT titan of Artificial Intelligence, Papert is “the greatest living mathematics educator.”
Here’s the wiki intro:
Seymour Papert (born February 29, 1928 in Pretoria, South Africa) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator. He is one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language.
Here’s a list of his completed works from Papert’s website and is a great resource for understanding how to translate these concepts for children.
| Title | Description/Source | Year |
| “Bode Miller” | Article for the Bangor Daily News (Bangor, Maine) | 2002 |
| “Computer as Condom” | Article for the Bangor Daily News (Bangor, Maine) | 2002 |
| “Hard Fun” | Article for the Bangor Daily News (Bangor, Maine) | 2002 |
| “It Takes a State” | Article for the Bangor Daily News (Bangor, Maine) | 2001 |
| “The Learning State” | Article for the Bangor Daily News (Bangor, Maine) | 2001 |
| “Vision for Education: The Caperton-Papert Platform” | Essay for the National Governors’ Association Annual Meeting | 1999 |
| “Papert on Piaget” | Time magazine special issue: “The Century’s Greatest Minds” | 1999 |
| “Ghost in the Machine” | ZineZone.com interview on how computers fundamentally change the way kids learn | 1999 |
| “Diversity in Learning: A Vision for the New Millennium” | Videotaped speech for Vice President Al Gore’s Diversity Task Force | 1999 |
| “Let’s Tie the Digital Knot” | TECHNOS Quarterly | 1998 |
| “Does Easy Do It? Children, Games and Learning” | Game Developer magazine | 1998 |
| “What Is Logo? And Who Needs It?” | Essay from Logo Philosophy and Implementation (Logo Computer Systems) | 1999 |
| “Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right, but Three Rights Do Make a Left” | Excerpt from The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap (Longstreet Press) | 1996 |
| “Learning by the Skin of His Teeth” | Excerpt from The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap (Longstreet Press) | 1996 |
| “The Wonderful Discovery of Nothing” | Excerpt from The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap (Longstreet Press) | 1996 |
| “Child Power: Keys to the New Learning of the Digital Century” | Videotaped speech from the 11th Colin Cherry Memorial Lecture on Communication | 1998 |
| “Why School Reform Is Impossible” | The Journal of the Learning Sciences | 1997 |
| “Looking at Technology Through School-Colored Spectacles” | Logo Exchange | 1997 |
| “Educational Computing: How Are We Doing?” | T.H.E. Journal | 1997 |
| “School’s Out?” | Interview by David S. Bennahum about how computers relate to school. | 1996 |
| “An Exploration in the Space of Mathematics Educations” | International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning | 1996 |
| www.ConnectedFamily.com | Website accompanying the book The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap (Longstreet Press) | 1996 |
| “Now I Know Why We Have Nouns and Verbs” | Learning story excerpted from The Connected Family (Longstreet Press) | 1996 |
| “Ian’s Truck” | Learning story excerpted from The Connected Family (Longstreet Press) | 1996 |
| “My Learning Disability” | Learning Story exerpted from The Connected Family (Longstreet Press) | 1996 |
| “Computers in the Classroom: Agents of Change” | The Washington Post Education Review | 1996 |
| “The Parent Trap” | Time magazine | 1995 |
| “Technology Works Enterprises Proposal” | Proposal for a program in Bucksport, Maine | 1995 |
| “Technology in Schools: Local Fix or Global Transformation?” | Written remarks for a U.S. House of Representatives panel on technology and education | 1995 |
| “Obsolete Skill Set: The Three Rs — Literacy and Letteracy in the Media Ages” | Wired magazine | 1993 |
| “Preface” | The Children’s Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer (Basic Books) | 1993 |
| “Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete” | Journal of Mathematical Behavior | 1992 |
| “Perestroika and Epistemological Politics” | Essay | 1991 |
| “Software Design as a Learning Environment” | Essay (with Idit Harel) | 1991 |
| “Situating Constructionism” | The first chapter in Constructionism, edited by Idit Harel and Seymour Papert (Ablex Publishing Corporation) | 1991 |
| “Computer Criticism Versus Technocentric Thinking” | M.I.T. Media Lab Epistemology and Learning Memo No. 1 | 1990 |
| A Critique of Technocentrism in Thinking About the School of the Future | M.I.T. Media Lab Epistemology and Learning Memo No.2 | 1990 |
| “The Future of School” | Discussion between Seymour Papert and Paolo Freire about the future of education | 1980s |
| “Event Programming in Logo” | Speech about programming in Logo delivered to an audience of Costa Rican educators | 1980s |
| “Constructionism vs. Instructionism” | Speech to an audience of educators in Japan | 1980s |
| Computer as Material: Messing About With Time | Teachers College Record | 1988 |
| “One AI or Many?” | Daedalus | 1988 |
| “Papert’s Principle” | Excerpt from The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky (Touchstone) | 1988 |
| “Learning Media and Learning Environments” | Speech delivered at the Communications Forum, MIT, 1987 | 1987 |
| “Just a Computer” | Principal | 1986 |
| “Different Visions of Logo” | Classroom Computer Learning | 1986 |
| “New Views on Logo” | Electronics Learning | 1986 |
| “The Next Step: Logo Writer” | Classroom Computer Learning | 1986 |
| Beyond the Cognitive: The Other Face of Mathematics | Proceedings of the nineteenth international Conference for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Plenary Lectures | 1986 |
| Seymour Papert on Logo: Hurdles, Logo Grammar, 1 | Video presentation | 1986 |
| Seymour Papert on Logo: Hurdles, Names and Variables, 2 | Video presentation | 1986 |
| Seymour Papert on Logo: Hurdles, Images of Recursion, 3 | Video presentation | 1986 |
| “Misconceptions About Logo” | Creative Computing | 1984 |
| “New Theories for New Learnings” | School Psychology Review | 1984 |
| “Computers as Mudpie” | Classroom Computer Learning | 1984 |
| “Microworlds: Transforming Education” | MIT memo | 1984 |
| “Tomorrow’s Classrooms?” | Times Educational Supplement | 1982 |
| “Computers and Computer Cultures” | Creative Computing | 1981 |
| “New Cultures From New Technology” | Byte magazine | 1980 |
| “Paper for the President’s Commission for a National Agenda for the ’80s” | Paper for a commission formed by President Jimmy Carter | 1980 |
| “The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Psychology” | Language and Learning: The Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky | 1980 |
| “The Gears of My Childhood” | Forward to Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (Basic Books) | 1980 |
| “Redefining Childhood: The Computer Presence as an Experiment in Developmental Psychology” | Paper delivered at the 8th World Computer Congress | 1980 |
| “The Mathematical Unconscious” | On Aesthetics in Science | 1978 |
| “Concepts and Artificial Intelligence and Testing for Propositional Logic” | Language Learning and Thought | 1977 |
| “A Learning Environment for Children” | Computers and Communications Implications for Education | 1977 |
| “Artificial Intelligence, Language and the Study of Knowlwedge” | Cogntitive Science (with Ira Goldstein) | 1977 |
| “An Evaluative Study of Modern Technology in Education” | MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Memo No. 371 | 1976 |
| “What Is Innate and Why” | Conference on Ontogenetic and Phylogenetic Models | 1976 |
| “Un Piaget ou Plusieurs?” | Symposium on Genetic Epistemology | 1976 |
| “Some Poetic and Social Criteria for Education Design” | Appendix to a Proposal to the National Science Foundation | 1976 |
| “Teaching Children Thinking” | Journal of Structural Language | 1975 |
| “Artificial Intelligence” | The Condon Lectures (with Marvin Minsky) | 1974 |
| “Uses of Technology to Enhance Education” | MIT Artificial Intelligence Memo No. 298 | 1973 |
| “A Computer Laboratory for Elementary Schools” | Computers and Automation | 1972 |
| “Teaching Children to Be Mathematicians vs. Teaching About Mathematics” | International Journal of Mathematics Education and Science Technology | 1972 |
| “Making a Theorem for a Child” | Proceedings of the ACM Conference | 1972 |
| “On Some Associative, Parallel and Analog Computations” | Associative Information Techniques (with Marvin Minsky) | 1971 |
| “Non-Counting Automata” | Article (with R. McNaughton) | 1971 |
| Perceptrons | Book (with Marvin Minsky) | 1969 |
| “The Syntactic Monoid of a Regular Event” | Algebraic Theory of Machines (with R. McNaughton) | 1968 |
| “Cybernetique et Epistemologie” | Presses Universitaires de France (with G. Cellerier and G. Voyat) | 1968 |
| “Le Temps et l’Epistemologie Genetique” | Etudes d’ Epistemologie Genetique (with G. Voyat) | 1968 |
| Chapters in Encyclopedia de la Pleiade | Encyclopedia de la Pleiade (Gallimard) | 1968 |
| “Linearly Unrecognizable Figures” | Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics XIX | 1967 |
| “Unrecognizable Sets of Numbers” | J.A.C.M. (with Marvin Minsky) | 1966 |
| “Topological Events” | University of Michigan Summer Conference on Theory of Automation (with R. McNaughton) | 1966 |
| “Introduction” | Embodiments of Mind by Warren S. McCulloch | 1965 |
| “An Abstract Theory of Subspaces” | Proc. Camb. Phil. Society | 1964 |
| “Stereoscopic Synthesis as a Technique for Localizing Visual Mechanisms” | R.L.F. | 1964 |
| “Sur l’Illusion de Muller-Lyer” | Annee Psychologique (with Jean Piaget) | 1964 |
| “Mathematical Appendix” | The Behavioral Basis of Perception by J.B. Taylor | 1963 |
| “Sur la Logique Piagetienne” | Etudes D’Epistemologie Genetique | 1962 |
| “Centrally Produced Visual Illusions” | Nature | 1961 |
| “Distorted Stereoscopic Vision” | Technical Paper, National Physical Laboratory (with G.N. Seagrim) | 1960 |
| “Redundancy and Linear Logical Nets” | Procedures of First Bionics Symposium | 1960 |
| “Which Lattices are Lattices of Open Sets” | Proc. Cam. Phil. Society | 1959 |
| “Lattices in Logic and Topology” | Dissertation, Cambridge University | 1959 |
| Sur les Treillis Para-Topologiques | C.R. Seminaire Ehresmann (with D. Papert) | 1957 |
| “A Theory of Perceptual Constancy” | British Journal of Psychology (with J. G. Taylor) | 1956 |
| “Sequential Convergences in Lattices” | Dissertation, University of the Witwaterstrand | 1952 |