Walsh, Russ. “Seymour Papert, Digital Learning and Missed Opportunities.” Russ on Reading. Blogger, 3 Aug. 2016, www.russonreading.blogspot.com/2016/08/seymour-papert-digital-learning-and.html. Web. Accessed 28 Nov. 2017.

Walsh’s blog entry, written shortly after Seymour Papert’s death, briefly reflects on Papert’s work in creating constructionist learning environments with his Logo Turtle and how it influenced Walsh as an educator. Walsh then cites and discusses a 2016 article by a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, TV producer, and author, William Doyle, researching the “schools of the future” in Finland. Walsh clearly exhibits how Doyle’s call for education reform in the U.S. is identical to the vision that Papert had initiated forty years ago, and professed throughout his life.

Russ Walsh is an author and educator with more than four decades of experience teaching in grades K-12 and higher education. Walsh is currently the Coordinator of College Reading at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ and was a member of the International Literacy Association’s Parents and Reading Committee for many years. Russ continues to write about public education and literacy education at his blog, Russ on Reading (Russ pars. 1-4).

This blog post signifies how Papert’s ideas about learning and proposals for education reform are still incredibly relevant to this day. Walsh presents an excellent, thought-provoking case for Papert’s constructionist learning in education reform with cited research and scholarly expertise.

WORKS CITED

"Russ Walsh — Garn Press." Garn Press, 2017, pars. 1-4, www.garnpress.com/authors/russ-walsh/. Web. Accessed 8 Dec. 2017.