Re: LOGO-L> Re MLC

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

Josie Hopkins wrote:

>To be honest I originally responded because I was annoyed that you
>asked people for insights but who can only have a distant observers
>perspective of what happens in the classrooms at MLC on a daily
>basis. (I happen to know and  highly respect the two people from whom
>you asked comment very  both educators and academics) Perhaps ask
>those who struggle on a daily basis to make this educational shift
>work.
>

OK Josie, I'll ask about something I've been puzzling about for some time.

MLC appears to be as close to an ideal contructionist learning environment
as one could hope for in a school. David Loader's leadership, large amounts
of staff development, and the continuous, personal access to computing
resources by students and teachers must be very suppportive to those
working in constructionist ways. This should also be an ideal environment
for Logo.

Yet from the outside it does not appear that Logo has a very special place
at MLC.  The MLC website description of the computing program lists
MicroWorlds as one of three multimedia authoring packages.  Is MicroWorlds
or other Logo software used in different ways, say for building
simulations, or for explorations in mathematics and language, or in ways
that don't happen anywhere else?

-Michael

Michael Tempel
Logo Foundation
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New York NY 10024
212 579 8028
212 579 8013
http://el.www.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/
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