by I’m taking a class of Pepperdine University doctoral students to Costa Rica for my Global Perspectives on Learning Technologies course. While there, we’ll be going on a school visit and have meetings at the Omar Dengo Foundation, the NGO responsible for supporting Costa Rica’s 25-year leadership in constructionism and computing.
I’ll also be giving in a lecture at the University of Costa Rica (the ad is gorgeous, but they gave me my mustache back). I’m not sure what I will talk about, because it’s in Spanish 🙂
I haven’t been in Costa Rica since 1991. It’s always nice to be in a country where they understand and respect Seymour Papert’s work. I am really looking forward to it!
Here are a few resources related to Costa Rica’s Computers in Education Program:
- The Computer in Costa Rica (articles by Seymour Papert and Clotilde Fonseca)
- A terrific (low video quality) short video about the educational transformation in Costa Rica (from early 1990s)
- A National Transformation (from 1993)
http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/pubs/logoupdate/V1N1.html#trans - A short 2002 video about the Omar Dengo Foundation
- 1:1 Computing in a Costa Rican School
Veteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do with a Computer – Forward 50, co-author of Invent To Learn — Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, publisher at Constructing Modern Knowledge Press, and the founder of the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute. He led professional development in the world’s first 1:1 laptop schools thirty years ago and designed one of the oldest online graduate school programs. Gary is also the curator of The Seymour Papert archives at DailyPapert.com. Learn more about Gary here.