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There's a somewhat relevant concept in Seymour Papert's book Mindstorms. Papert talks about "body-syntonicity" where the act of drawing a circle on the computer
by sdg1 11y ago
There's a somewhat relevant concept in Seymour Papert's book Mindstorms. Papert talks about "body-syntonicity" where the act of drawing a circle on the computer screen with LOGO can be seen as bridging children’s sense and knowledge about their own bodies to something abstract. Young children would often pretend to be the LOGO turtle, acting out commands on the floor, during stages of planning a LOGO program, or while debugging LOGO code. It has also been a strategy for teachers to introduce programming and procedural ways of thinking. This video shows this in action (with some followup comments from Papert): https://youtu.be/bOf4EMN6-XA?t=254 https://youtu.be/bOf4EMN6-XA?t=254
- rurounijones 11y agoWhen I was in school with the BBC micro and the LOGO turtle we had an actual physical turtle hooked up to the machine via a long cable. Needless to say this was much more popular with us than just the screen. I am sure it is partly for the robotic'ness of it but we would often walk around with the turtle as it was moving. So what you are saying and linked to I can well believe.
- juanuys 11y agoThis sounds great. Do you have any more information on the mechanical turtle? (consumer kit, or a side-project by an industrious teacher?)
- obitoo 11y agoHere he is , as i recall it was a kit http://www.classicacorn.freeuk.com/8bit_focus/logo/logo.html http://www.classicacorn.freeuk.com/8bit_focus/logo/logo.html
- rurounijones 11y agoThis was a consumer kit aimed at schools. Looks like there were many different types as obitoo has another that I have never seen. http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/asset78077_1582-.html http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/asset78077_1582-.html
- 7Z7 11y agoHuh! Ours, and the ones I saw on telly as a nipper, did not look like an actual turtle! It was just a smooth hemisphere with gubbins on display, inside.