Seymour Papert - the Nostradomous of education. This guy predicted and forecasted where education needed to be in a time when it was unthinkable. He believed, through his theory of constructionism, that children learn best when constructing or designing things. He thought that children should be the bosses of computers and not the other way around. Papert believed in 1:1 computing, coding, robotics and "maker" movements. He even despised text book learning! What's not to like about this guy?!

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He worked alongside Piaget for some time, synergizing with his notions of constructivism in the way both theories focus on building knowledge structures. However, constructionism separates itself with Piagetian ideals in that knowledge is created when thinking is made visible or shareable rather than just inside one's head. 

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Papert knew that he was weird and not everyone learned in the same way; thus, he knew the extreme importance of catering to the individual (i.e. differentiated instruction). He also believed in the power of linking learning to authentic problems, rather than giving students problems entirely out of context on paper (Stager, 2014).