Re: LOGO-L> specific ideas for classrm use

["Jim Muller" <Jim.Muller@MCI.Com>]

>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.


Fantastic!

This goes back to a favorite line from Einstein...who had a great
affinity for children, by the way...

"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge."

Another antecdote comes to mind...from a young lady in one of my early classes.

TO HOUSE
REPEAT 4 [FD 50 RT 90]
FD 50 RT 30
REPEAT 3 [FD 50 RT 120]
END

This was really rather boring, so she typed HOUSE again...and again.
Then she came up with...

REPEAT 12 [HOUSE]

Now she was getting somewhere!  A few minutes later she had created
her own sportscar.  

It was hysterical when the other kids turned to see what she was doing...

"Hey, how'd you do that?"

I would dearly love to have Todd Oppenheimer (Atlantic Monthly writer)
and some of the other Logo/computer critics in the classroom at such
a time. Unbridled imagination is, indeed, so much more power than knowledge
in a straightjacket.

Regards...Jim
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