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Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, pioneer of constructionist learning, dies at 88 | MIT News
MIT News: Seymour Papert, whose ideas and inventions transformed how millions of children around the world create and learn, died Sunday at his home in East Blue Hill, Maine. He was 88. ─ Read item ─
The History of Mr. Papert
This article outlines the life and career of Seymour A. Papert through the mid-1990s. We follow the development of Papert from his early formal and informal education in the South Africa of the 1930’s through to his sage era in …
MIT Technology Review: Mobile Phone Data Reveals Literacy Rates in Developing Countries
A machine learning algorithm has learned to tell whether individuals can read or write by analyzing their mobile phone records.” ─ Read item ─
The Washington Post: The weird story of the arrest of a Canadian education researcher in Uganda
A Canadian doctoral student who was in Uganda to research the operations of a for-profit outfit called Bridge International Academies (BIA) was arrested after complaints about his work by the company. ─ Read item ─
The Guardian: Student loans: the next big mis-selling scandal?
The most serious case for mis-selling rests on a decision taken by George Osborne last November. In 2010 the government committed to uprate the £21,000 repayment threshold in line with average earnings. But in November 2015 it wasfrozen for five …
Telegraph: Schools as businesses – when education doesn’t always come first
The drive towards the marketisation of education, however, raises the dilemma long faced by independent schools, as to whether they are first and foremost purveyors of education, or businesses that need to operate with an eye to the marketplace in order …
HP just officially made backpack VR computers a trend
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