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'''Uri Wilensky''' is a learning scientist and the creator of [[NetLogo]], the most widely used platform for [[Agent-Based Model|agent-based modeling]] in education and research. He founded the [[Center for Connected Learning]] at Northwestern University, where he has spent decades investigating how computational tools can make complex systems thinking accessible to learners who would otherwise never encounter it. Wilensky's work extends the [[Constructionism|constructionist]] tradition of [[Seymour Papert]] into the domain of multi-agent systems, but with a crucial shift: where Papert emphasized the learner as the single agent exploring a microworld, Wilensky emphasizes the learner as the observer orchestrating populations of agents. Whether this shift preserves or dilutes constructionism is a question Wilensky's own writings do not adequately address.

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