Logosium '95, June 16, OMNI Hotel, Baltimore, MD
Sponsored by ISTE SIG-Logo (Marian Rosen - mbrosen@oui.com) and
The Logo Foundation (Michael Tempel - michaelt@media.mit.edu)
Session 1 (9:35-10:50)
Logo on the Internet: Michael Tempel
Discussion Logo resources on the Internet including Logo-L List Serve
sponsored by Logo Foundation & Global School Net Foundation, Logo Web, and
other forums. Find out how to get on and what you will find. Brainstorm
what you might want in the future.
LEGO DACTAR Control Lab*: Tom Lough
Overview of this software for Mac and MS-DOS machines featuring three levels
of interaction - point and click, writing procedures, using buttons, sliders
and graphs; output devices including motors, lamps, and sound elements; input
devices including touch, temperature, angle (rotation), and light sensors.
Discussion of curriculum connections appropriate for physical sciences and
technical education.
Textile Design (for the Last Time): Orlando Mihich
Middle school students use Logo to create beautiful and intricate African
textile patterns. The project depends on the use of state transparent
sub-procedures and the geometry of spinning, rotating, and alternating them.
Logo, Math, & Music: Hope Chafiian, Eleanore Bednarsh
This is for you IF you value process over product; IF you're looking for a
novel approach to integrating math, music, and Logo; IF you'd like to spend
75" in a hands-on Logo environment; of IF you're just plain curious.
Session 2 (11:00-12:15)
Meet the Editors of LX & Logo Update: Dorothy Fitch, Michael Tempel
Learn editorial policies and guidelines for submitting articles, give
feedback about what you want journals to have.
Children & Publishing, Multimedia Style: Susan van Gelder
Children are surrounded by interactivity. MicroWorlds gives them the chance
to develop their own interactive newspapers, games, travel brochures. The
session will focus on ways in which children have planned, developed, and
"published" their works as part of an integrated curriculum. Their
experiences led to a greater understanding of the technology around them.
Children's Logo Conferences: Mel Levin, Eleanora Badilla
The presenters will share their experiences about how they designed and
organized Logo conferences geared toward students. An open discussion will
follow to brainstorm further ideas and perhaps find ways to bring students to
future Logosiums.
Geometry Tool Kits with MicroWorlds: Gary Stager
Activity is designed for middle and high schools in which students express
their geometry knowledge by collaboratively constructing their own geometry
tool kit. The tool kit is similar in function to software such as Geometer
Sketchpad, but allows students to actually understand the math behind the
tool by designing the software themselves. This session will share ideas and
materials for getting started.
Session 3 (1:40-2:55)
NCTM Standards, Where's the Reform?: Ihor Charischak
Seymour Papert once said that the NCTM Standards were going in the right
direction, but were incredibly conservative. One reason for this is that NCTM
does not advocate the project approach because it is difficult to implement
given the tyranny of the 45 minute period. Their compromise has been to
encourage the "problem du jour" approach. This session will discuss ways in
which Logo can be used to nurture the project approach in the typical
mathematics classroom.
MicroWorlds' Graphics Secrets: Jerry Crisci
This demonstration will showcase the use of third party computer graphics
software to enhance MicroWorlds projects. Examples will include computer
animation, three dimensional effects, and other graphics tricks.
Programmable Brick: Mitchel Resnick
Take a look at the future. See a wireless small robot that can be programmed
with a few simple rules and then let go in an environment to see what it
does. Developed at the MIT Media Lab, the programmable brick is related to
current research in emergent intelligence and insectbots, multiple small
roving robots that can be programmed to do jobs and which sometimes seem to
"make decisions".
Talk to the Developers: Sharnee Chait (LCSI), Dorothy Fitch (Terrapin)
Our teaching environment is shaped by the tools the software companies
deliver to us. Here's your chance to find out the philosophy behind the
design decisions being made, to ask your questions, and to request future
features.
Session 4 (3:05-4:20)
Logo Research: Doug Clements, Julie Meredith Sarama
In this meeting, we plan to travel the usual chronological route by (a) over
viewing where research on Logo has been, (b) sharing where it is now, and (c)
brainstorm, and maybe plan, where it should be going. We shall organize a
brief presentation for the first section and will encourage all those
attending to participate fully in the second and third sections. We welcome
contributions (multiple copies) of articles, bibliographies, and so on.
Keeping 'Em Down on the Logo after They've Seen MicroWorlds: Marian Rosen
If you've been telling other teachers and kids that Logo is for drawing, it's
time to stop. What's it really for? What kind of projects can use both GOFL
(Good Old Fashioned Logo) and the new tools available? After a few
introductory remarks, the facilitator will open the discussion to everyone.
Logo Down Under: Steve Costa
Logo is alive and well in Australia. How do they do it?
StarLogo 1.0: Mitchel Resnick
This new implementation from MIT features thousands of turtles that carry out
tasks simultaneously. It is wonderful for exploring ideas of emergent
intelligence; for simulations; for studying the complexity that can be
created by many agents following simple rules.
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