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

[mikedoyle@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mike Doyle)]

In-Reply-To: <l03102800afa5db4e2a67@[192.246.43.81]>
Michael Tempel wrote:

> 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.

Given that you would not argue (I hope!) for discontinuity between 
mentally handicapped kids and the most able, it follows that the 
fundamental teaching approach used for the one applies throughout. I guide 
my kids to safety from my knowledge of dangers. The greatest danger in the 
use of computers in education is in the assimilation of its capabilities 
to notions founded in pencil and paper representation (Piaget). It follows 
that it is my role as a teacher to ensure, as far as possible, that I am 
not teaching assimilative concepts to the next generation. It is my 
imperative to *provide a context* that will, in my opinion, best help them 
to accommodate to the new capability we have devised for ourselves 
(research done on accommodation by Manchester University a long time ago).
 
This, in principle, is what I do when guiding those I teach through the 
perils of the world to maximum independence.

Micheal O Duill
EuroLogo Scientific Committee Chairman

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