Seymour Papert

Seymour Papert is a distinguished professor at the University of Maine. He used to be a professor at MIT where he cofounded the Artificial Intelligence Lab and founded the MIT Media Lab. Over the years, he has researched how technology provides new ways for children all around the world to learn. He has worked on projects on every continent including some in remote undeveloped countries.
As a professor at MIT, he had a lab where many firsts took place. The first time children ever used a computer to to write and creat graphics was in his lab. It was also in his lab where th Logo programming language was created. Finally, the first children's toys that had bulit-in computation were created in his lab. Basically, he is trying to get children caught uop with today's technology so that they will be exposed to different/better ways of learning.
Here , is a link to many of Papert's works.