Seymour Papert, Roger Schank, etc

[gusl]

I've known about Seymour Papert for a long time. I should read more about Roger Schank.

Google: "logical structure" constructivism

Google: constructivism formalization

Michael David Travers - Programming with Agents: New metaphors for thinking about computation

http://www.cs.dal.ca/~eem/hscs/constructivism.htm

http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/Publications/papers/construct.html

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Roger Schank

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I tripped across Schank's stuff a while back while I was working at Microsoft and considering a career change towards working on educational technology. I wrote his office and did eventually get a response back, but unfortunately by the time the response came I had gotten a requested promotion and made a decision to stay.

I was impressed (although a little personally-deflated) to find that he had an idea that I had, of building driving simulations for educational purposes. Basically mount a video camera on the hood of your car, and then go around recording all the paths through the city. Then let students train themselves in a choose-your-own-adventure way without wasting gas and familiarize themselves with a route, or just explore. He actually implemented this on a small scale.

My idea was to do one run at night, and one run during the day...that way you could practice your trips during both different "looking" environments. We're definitely on the way with things like VR Seattle. The club I go to on Saturdays is even on there...get a good look at the cracks on the ceiling! ;)

(web search reveals Schank has a company called Cognitive Arts...hmmm...will have to look into that in more detail)