Seymour Papert is the world's foremost expert on how technology can provide new ways to learn. His current educational project is as an advisor to Nicolas Negroponte's One Lap Top Per Child. The mission of the foundation is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves thru educational software. The children at main focus are children outside of the first world that otherwise do not have access to technological learning opportunities. To give the OLPC a jump start it is starting a "give one, get one free" campaign. It is like our buy one get one free, which means one for OLPC, and one for yourself. Not a bad deal to help less fortunate children.
Mr. Papert is also on among many advisory boards, MaMaMedia which specializes in a structionalist learning theory inspired applications to help develop digital literacy skills for children around the world. His advice regarding technology based educational methods is sought internationally by governments agencies in Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Papert's work continues to be recognized with many awards.
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