Re: LOGO-L> specific ideas for classrm use

[Yehuda Katz <yehuka@beitberl.beitberl.ac.il>]

Jim Muller wrote (abridged):

> What amazed us...the observing adults...was how quickly the 5 -  6
> year olds picked up the commands and were able to accurately 
> visualize what they wanted to do. We expected most of their time to 
> be spent in the immediate mode but many were actively using the 
> editor with little or no debugging of their procedures.
> 
> Over the years, there has been pros and cons about the use of 
> single-key procedures. I can only comment on our experience and that > of those who used "Logo Island Adventures," the kindergarten 
> curriculum we developed based on The Toddler's Turtle.
> 
> What's your feeling about single-key procedures?
> 
> Regards...Jim

Hi Jim,

Inside Levinski Teachers College in Tel-Aviv (where I teach) there's a
kindergarten, which was computerized as early as 1985. Among other
software they had LCSI Logo (on an Apple machine).

One of our staff, Prof. Shafi Give'on, wrote a single-key mini-Logo
program, which the kids used with a great pleasure (this experience
produced later several articles in education magazines).

What was special with it is that every command the kid gave - was
automatically recorded to a file on the disk. Later, our education
experts would collect the disk and analyze those files, trying to
understand/reconstruct the logic and way of thinking of the kid (Why did
he erase that line? Why he added that shape AFTER the other shape etc.).

I liked to sit for hours and watch the kids playing (=learning). One of
the most amazing events I witnessed: The kids were taken one day for a
ride in a train. The next day they were asked to draw the train with
their instant-Logo. As it happened, the kindergarten teacher forgot to
tell the kids what key draws a circle. So the kids drew, I didn't
believe my eyes, square wheels! They simply made the best of their
knowledge.

Unnecessary to say that I myself could never come to such a brilliant
solution.

Regards...

[[Yehuda]]


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