As the PC becomes standard homework equipment and the internet begins to replace the library, parents across America face new concerns about their children and computers. Now, Seymour Papert, the country's foremost expert on computing for children, speaks out in the groundbreaking new book, The Connected Family. Papert answers parents' most pressing questions on the subject, touching on everything from the dangers of cyberporn to the educational value of video games.
In simple, straightforward language, Papert offers advice for everyone from the technologically perplexed to the ultra-sophisticated on how best to use the computer to enrich family life in the 90s and beyond.
The Connected Family will answer for people such fundamental questions as:
Seymour Papert is the world's leading expert in helping children learn to work with computers. He was the first to recognize and articulate how computers could fundamentally revolutionize learning and education. Papert invented the groundbreaking LOGO computer language, the first and most important effort to give children control over technology and thus over their own learning.Papert holds the Lego Chair for Learning Research at M.I.T., where he is also co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence and Media Laboratories. In the fall of 1995, he was asked to appear at the White House and separately before Congress (the latter with Alvin Toffler and George Lucas) to speak about children's education and computers. Time magazine asked Papert to write a column about children and computers to launch their new Digital section in Fall of 1995. Papert is the author of Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas and The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer. He lives in Blue Hill, Maine, and in Boston.
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