>From Andy Carvin: Hi everyone,
I've just received the terrible news that education technology pioneer Seymour Papert has been gravely injured in an accident in Hanoi. He was attending a conference there and was hit by a motorbike, sustaining significant head trauma. The boston globe has a story here: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/12/07/mit_figure_struck_injured_in_hanoi/ and I've blogged about it here: http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/12/prayers_for_seymour_papert.html Seymour is one of the developers of constructionist learning theory. He helped found MIT's artificial intelligence lab, developed the LOGO programming language and inspired both the Maine laptop initiative and the $100 laptop. Hopefully he will pull through, but he will need all the thoughts and prayers we can muster. andy ------------------------ Andy Carvin andycarvin at yahoo com www.andycarvin.com www.pbs.org/learningnow ------------------------ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
