RE: [Fwd: LOGO-L> ideas needed!!!]

[Michael Tempel <michaelt@media.mit.edu>]

Mike Doyle wrote:

>Commands and operations
>(LCSI call operations reporters in LogoWriter and MicroWorlds.) The
>commands are instructions such as forward, which make things happen.
>Operations supply (report) information, e.g. heading. The way in which
>Turtle Geometry is usually taught leads to kids spending most of their
>time ordering the Turtle to draw rather than asking it its state.

When turtles are used as objects in video games I find the programs contain
more use of reporters.  There's a need to know where they are, and who and
what they are bumping into.

(But I don't think that directing the turtle to draw, mainly with commands,
is a bad thing either.)


>Children
>I do not have the luxury of letting the kids I teach do what they find
>interesting. I teach mentally handicapped kids, so the thinks they find
>interesting might well kill them.

This is a pretty dramatic statement, but what do you mean?  I can't see how
using the turtle  to draw whatever one finds interesting can be lethal for
anyone of any mental capacity.

-Michael

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