User:Dan Lynn Watt

Dan Lynn Watt is an educational consultant specializing in mathematics, science, and technology education, as well as computer uses in education. He lives in Cambridge Cohousing, Cambridge Massachusetts with his wife, Molly Lynn Watt. From 1976 to 1981 he worked with Seymour Papert and the MIT Logo Group and helped to develop the version of Logo used in schools in the 1980s. He is the author of Learning With Logo, Learning with Apple Logo, Learnng with Commodore Logo and Learning with IBM Logo (McGraw-Hill, 1983-1985), a series of best-selling guides to the early versions of the Logo language. He and Molly Lynn Watt wrote Teaching With Logo (Addison Wesley, 1986).

Over more than 40 years in education he has been a classroom teacher, teacher educator, researcher, curriculum developer, workshop leader, lecturer, editor and writer. He served as Principal Investigator on several NSF education grants dealing with technology uses in education. Most recently he helped develop and teach online courses for math educators, collaborated on elementary math curriculum for Alaskan schools based on mathematics learned from Native Alaskan elders, and on a professional development program to support middle school math teachers in teaching high-level mathematics to English language learners.

He is an active member of the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, and is writing a memoir about his childhood, growing up in a Communist family in New York during the 1940s and 1950s. In 1964 he was a civil rights worker in Fayette County Tennessee, in a voter registration and election campaign that eventually led to the registration of enough voters to elect the first Black county officials since Reconstruction.