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Papert worked on learning theories, and is known for focusing on the impact of new technologies on learning in general and in schools as learning organizations in particular.

Papert used Piaget's work in his development of the Logo programming language whilst at MIT. He created Logo as a tool to improve the way that children think and solve the problems

Piaget's late developing so called formal stage, is filled with the stuff children can't make mudpies with, or rather couldn't. For this is exactly where the computer achieves its greatest power as a developmental factor: the young programmer of space ships is able to play quite concretely with logic, with laws of motion and with much more that could previously be mastered only with the aid of abstractly formal notions and concepts.

"One of the major advantages of project work is that it makes school more like real life," says Sylvia Chard,

"One of the major advantages of project work is that it makes school more like real life," says Sylvia Chard,

Chard doesn't like the term "project-based learning," because she says it implies a focus on projects to the exclusion of other legitimate learning methods; she prefers "project learning."