Piaget: 100 anos

Reflections on Piaget 1 Running head : REFLECTIONS ON PIAGET

Piaget and Artificial Intelligence

Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology and Artl$cial Intelligence can be of great use to each other, since the strengths of each approach complement the weaknesses of the other. Two ways of bringing the two approaches together are suggested: elaborating the parallels between them (such as the concept of schemata), and building AI models based directly on Piaget’s theory. How this mighl benejit AI is ill...

Piaget, Inhelder and Minecraft

This paper describes an exploratory study observing the use of Minecraft (a popular sandbox style online video game environment) in a high school English literature classroom. We use Piaget and Inhelder’s (1969) constructivist theories about the formal operational stage of development to interpret the concepts of plot and characterization in three student produced films that were created within...

Jean Piaget (1896-1980)

Jean Piaget was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, on August 9, 1896. His father, Arthur Piaget, was a professor of medieval literature with an interest in local history. His mother, Rebecca Jackson, was intelligent and energetic, but Jean found her a bit neurotic -an impression that he said led to his interest in psychology, but away from pathology! The oldest child, he was quite independent and ...

Artificial Life and Piaget

Artificial Life is the study of all phenomena of the living world through their reproduction in artificial systems. We argue that Artificial Life models of evolution and development offer a new set of theoretical and methodological tools for investigating Piaget’s ideas. The concept of an Artificial Life Neural Network (ALNN) is first introduced, and contrasted with the study of other recent ap...