Prayers for Seymour Papert

Andy Carvin just shared this via several lists I am on. I am so grieved. Papert was instrumental in shaping my philosophy of education and drove most of my originial thinking on how children learn. I just showed a clip tonight to Alabama teachers on project-based learning tonight that has him featured throughout. Please watch it, it is amazing. Anytime he was keynoting I went to hear him speak and I dreamed of studying under him. I work his ideas into every presentation I make.
Please remember him in your thoughts or prayers.
Here is Andy's email....

Hi everyone,

I've just received the terrible news that education
technology pioneer Seymour Papert has been gravely
injured in an accident in Hanoi. He was attending a
conference there and was hit by a motorbike,
sustaining significant head trauma.

The boston globe has a story here:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/12/07/mit_figure_struck_injured_in_hanoi/

and I've blogged about it here:

http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/12/prayers_for_seymour_papert.html

Seymour is one of the developers of constructionist
learning theory. He helped found MIT's artificial
intelligence lab, developed the LOGO programming
language and inspired both the Maine laptop initiative
and the $100 laptop.

Hopefully he will pull through, but he will need all
the thoughts and prayers we can muster.

andy