Re: LOGO-L> Lego Mindstorms

[Frank Caggiano <caggiano@atlantic.net>]

Dale R. Reed wrote:

> 
> If all of this flies then some of your students may experience some
> career growth using their LOGO skills.  School to Work and all that.
> Dale
> --

Except as was stated in the Washington Post article the programming
interface is pruely graphical. 

No mention of LOGO is made in the article or at the Lego site. If you
look at 'step 3 programming' (at their web site) you'll see what looks
like a screen shot of their programming interface.  For a product aimed
at 'age 11 and up' (from the Washington Post article) this just seems
way to simplistic.  Hopefully there will a hook into LOGO but as no
mention is made of the language in either newspaper article or their web
site I am not hopeful. In fact if you look at their site they almost
seem to be going out of their way not to mention LOGO.

It would have been nice but I suppose asking to much, if the company had
tried to get some input from the larger community rather thane from an
"Advisory Board made up of a diverse, multi-disciplined group of global
thinkers."  Advisory boards like that give me a chill.

regards
-- 
Frank Caggiano
caggiano@atlantic.net
http://www.atlantic.net/~caggiano
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