Seymour Papert, EdTech Pioneer Dead at 88

Seymour Papert, one of the grand old men of educational technology, died last week at age 88. Long before the personal computer and the Internet, long before this generation’s computer heroes like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs brought the digital age to the classroom,  Seymour Papert and his colleagues realized that computers would change education. They developed the first computer language for children in 1967.