I’ve just read this post from Andy Carvin about Seymour Papert – Andy Carvin’s Waste of Bandwidth: Prayers for Seymour Papert. Seymour Papert was hit by a motorcycle and “gravely injured” while in Hanoi for a conference. According to a report at boston.com, the accident on Tuesday left Papert, 78, in a coma. An e-mail from Hanoi says On tuesday afternoon, Seymour Papert got run over. He hit his head, and has had to undergo emergency neurosurgery.
I don’t think that educational technology would exist in its present form without his influence. We need to keep his ideas about the importance of play in learning ever present in our minds as corporations try to claim control over learning (by patenting e-learning, perhaps?).
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