In 2018 this paper reframed a major chapter of computing history in a way that's more apparent and relevant today.

The paper traces the ideological roots of Seymour Papert's constructionism and Logo, as well as projects his work influenced such as Scratch and OLPC, to the MIT hacker culture. It also explains the fall from grace of the theory in the education world, but notably not in the technology world, as a consequence of that culture and its disconnect with the wider social implications.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3274287

#LogoLang #mit #hackers

In 2018 this paper reframed a major chapter of computing history in a way that's more apparent and relevant today.

The paper traces the ideological roots of Seymour Papert's constructionism and Logo, as well as projects his work influenced such as Scratch and OLPC, to the MIT hacker culture. It also explains the fall from grace of the theory in the education world, but notably not in the technology world, as a consequence of that culture and its disconnect with the wider social implications.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3274287

#LogoLang #mit #hackers