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 Founder and Director, OpenWorld Learning |
Chris is the founder and director of OpenWorld Learning (OpenWorld Learning). He raises funds to support development of MicroWorlds in Action and provides ideas and suggestions to the design team. He leads the field-testing of MicroWorlds in Action taking place with teachers and students in Community Technology Centers that OpenWorld Learning operates during after-school hours in the primarily Latino neighborhoods of North and West Denver. Chris's professional background is in classroom teaching (5 years), educational program design, and teacher training. Chris majored in Latin American History at Harvard College, received an M.A. in Educational Psychology from the University of Colorado, Denver, and has done additional coursework at Denver University's Daniels College of Business. He lives in Denver, Colorado. |
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 Project Coordinator, MicroWorlds in Action Creator, Math Cats website |
Wendy leads the design and development of MicroWorlds in Action. She has developed or adapted the projects in the project library and welcomes you to share with her any projects or project ideas you would like to see included on the site. Wendy has 18 years' teaching experience, including eight years as an Information Technology teacher with a focus on MicroWorlds and Logo programming. Wendy received a B.A. in psychology and an M.A.T. in secondary English from Cornell University and received certification in elementary education through East Stroudsburg State College in Pennsylvania. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland. |
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 Webmaster, OpenWorld Learning |
Daniel is responsible for the web implementation of MicroWorlds in Action and the development of the Spanish language version of the project. Daniel began programming in Logo and other languages at the age of ten. He has designed web sites for commercial and government customers in Ecuador and taught computer programming and web design. Daniel graduated cum laude as a Systems Engineer from "La Facultad de Ingenieria de Sistemas" at Ecuador's National Polytechnic School. He works with OpenWorld Learning on a range of software development projects from his home outside Quito, Ecuador. |
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 Seymour Papert Inventor of Logo Educational Visionary Member of OpenWorld Learning's National Advisory Council www.papert.org |
Seymour Papert is a member of the National Advisory Council that supports the OpenWorld Learning mission. Papert's bold visions have been transforming the field of education since the 1960's. Long before personal computers existed, Papert envisioned children using computers for learning and creative expression. During his lengthy collaboration with Jean Piaget, Papert brought together the theory of constructivism and the world of technology, and Logo was born. Papert is a mathematician and is a cofounder with Marvin Minsky of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT and a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab. Papert lives in Maine, where he continues to develop cutting-edge methods of learning. He has been named distinguished professor by the University of Maine and is credited with inspiring the first initiative aimed at giving a personal computer to every student of a state. He spends a large part of his time working in the Maine Youth Center in Portland, the state's facility for teenagers convicted of serious offenses. He has carried out innovative educational projects on every continent. Papert is considered by many to be the world's leading expert on how technology can provide new ways to learn. |
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 Consultant to OpenWorld Learning President, The Logo Foundation Developer, SEED science ed website |
Michael is a consultant to OpenWorld Learning on educational program and curriculum development. Some of the projects on this site are based on games developed by his former students. As President of the Logo Foundation, Michael offers workshops throughout the world on Logo and robotics. He has collaborated for 20 years with Seymour Papert, the creator of Logo, through MIT's Media Lab. Michael worked for ten years for LCSI, the developers of MicroWorlds. Michael received his BS in sociology and MA in Educational Technology at Columbia U. and received an MS in education at the City College of New York. Michael lives in New York City. |
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