{"id":1380,"date":"2016-08-18T09:49:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T16:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appinventor.pevest.com\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2016-08-18T09:49:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T16:49:01","slug":"mit-professor-seymour-papert-passed-away-31-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/2016\/08\/18\/mit-professor-seymour-papert-passed-away-31-july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Professor Seymour Papert, passed away 31 July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Professor Seymour Papert was a forward looking visionary who pioneered the adoption of computing concepts in children&#8217;s education, including the development of <a href=\"http:\/\/el.media.mit.edu\/logo-foundation\/what_is_logo\/history.html\">Logo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful-Ideas\/dp\/0465046746\">Mindstorms <\/a>and turtle programming. His distant work back in the 1960s and 1970s lay the foundation for today&#8217;s use of MIT App Inventor in children&#8217;s education. His contributions to education and computing are greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Much more about Paupert&#8217;s background may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/02\/technology\/seymour-papert-88-dies-saw-educations-future-in-computers.html?_r=0\">read in the NY Times<\/a> or in this essay by a colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1TpT96F8NG7-PBxd3KGjcnwsZ_fUlqdFBN42dZZpoqHU\/edit\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Professor Seymour Papert was a forward looking visionary who pioneered the adoption of computing concepts in children&#8217;s education, including the development of Logo, Mindstorms and turtle programming. His distant work back in the 1960s and 1970s lay the foundation for today&#8217;s use of MIT App Inventor in children&#8217;s education. His contributions to education and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/2016\/08\/18\/mit-professor-seymour-papert-passed-away-31-july-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MIT Professor Seymour Papert, passed away 31 July 2016<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-stem-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/appinventor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}