Word: papert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widest benefits of the electronic revolution (unlike those of most revolutions) will accrue to the young. Seymour Papert, professor of mathematics and education at M.I.T., estimates that there will be 5 million private computers in people's homes and available to students within two years; by 1982, he predicts, 80% of upper-middle-class families will have computers "capable of playing important roles in the intellectual development of their children." Says California Author Robert Albrecht, a pioneer of electronic education: "In schools, computers will be more common than carousel slide projectors, movie projectors and tape recorders. They'll be used...
...which they help a southward-migrating gray whale make the necessary navigational and survival decisions to reach the Baja California breeding grounds. One effect of the computer, says Albrecht, is "to create worlds of If for children to explore." ¶ In Brookline, Mass., under the direction of Seymour Papert, a pilot study costing almost $1.5 million and financed by the National Science Foundation, is getting its first realistic testing with 48 sixth-graders who are learning to program computers for math, language, music making and, says Papert, "we like to believe, thinking skills...
Unhappy Clients. Some advertisers disapprove of agencies' diversification moves, fearing that they will divert management attention from client services. Last year Procter & Gamble and Warner-Lambert pulled out of P.K.L. Companies Inc. (formerly Papert, Koenig, Lois) partly because they were unhappy with the agency's acquisition of a motorbike company. Century Cycles. .Critics who foresaw disaster when agencies began going public now argue that admen venturing into new fields will fail because they lack experience in production, distribution or retailing...