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It means you need to keep the learning tangible, tactile, and concrete. Simple robots are great for that. At that age with my kid, we did Logo+Turtle graphics
by dbcurtis 9y ago
It means you need to keep the learning tangible, tactile, and concrete. Simple robots are great for that. At that age with my kid, we did Logo+Turtle graphics, with a "be the robot" walk-through before coding. Also we got a Pro-Bot from Terrapin Logo, which is again create concrete, observable output from simple programming steps. Somewhere along the line we had a robot that I don't think is made any more, but it had a paper disk with two channels of information for driving the two wheel motors, and you programmed it with a black crayon.
The key is keeping a direct, concrete connection between program and output. Multiple steps of abstract thinking don't work well.
- cr0sh 9y ago> Somewhere along the line we had a robot that I don't think is made any more, but it had a paper disk with two channels of information for driving the two wheel motors, and you programmed it with a black crayon. Sounds like one of the old OWI MOVIT robots - they used to sell a version (I think it is discontinued but still available from some vendors) called the "Binary Player Robot Kit". It doesn't look the same as the original version in the 1980s, but the internal circuitry is probably identical.
- dbcurtis 9y agoOh yeah, Binary Player. It was pretty interesting for how simple it was.