Play’s Republic

Seymour Papert is the playful genius whose notion of constructionism lead to millions of children working with LOGO, a programming language that moved a turtle back and forth across the screen. He is credited with developing the Lego “Mindstorm” series of programmable robots, and was a founding faculty member of MIT’s fabled Media Lab. I’ve [...]

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This morning, the Washington Post has an article about “Teddy Bear, version 2.0.”  In it, we are reminded of the blunted, inside-out conception of the ludic embraced by much of the West:  A self-styled “toy analyst” out-Platos Plato, asserting that ”Play always reflects the adult world.”  The article is predictably suspicious of the role of this new technology [...]

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