Editing Seymour Papert (section)

===Constructionism===
At MIT, Papert went on to create the [[Genetic epistemology|Epistemology]] and Learning Research Group at the [[MIT School of Architecture and Planning|MIT Architecture Machine Group]] which later became the [[MIT Media Lab]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Group Overview ‹ Lifelong Kindergarten |url=https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/lifelong-kindergarten/overview/ |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=MIT Media Lab}}</ref> Here, he was the developer of a theory on learning called [[Constructionist learning|constructionism]], built upon the work of [[Jean Piaget]] in [[Constructivism (learning theory)|constructivist learning theories]]. Papert had worked with Piaget at the University of Geneva from 1958 to 1963<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.media.mit.edu/~papert/|title=Seymour Papert|website=mit.edu|publisher=MIT|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150308021353/http://web.media.mit.edu/~papert/|archive-date=8 March 2015}}</ref> and was one of Piaget's protégés; Piaget himself once said that "no one understands my ideas as well as Papert".<ref>{{Cite book|title=From the campfire to the holodeck : creating engaging and powerful 21st century learning environments|last=Thornburg|first=David|publisher=Jossey-Bass|year=2013|isbn=9781118748060|location=San Francisco, CA|page=78}}</ref> Papert has rethought how schools should work, based on these theories of learning.