[IAEP] LOGO advocacy

[Alan Kay]

Hi Tony

Thanks for doing this. Another really interesting "Logo-like" language with several important ideas in it was "Boxer" -- originally done by two of the original Logo folks (Andy di Sessa and Hal Abelson). 

I liked it because it had an integrated graphical mapping of its visual media to Logo data structures to provide a way for children to think about media-as-program. Etoys does this in a different way -- not nearly as simple (too bad) but with pretty rich media objects (good).

Boxer would be a good addition to the XO -- though I think it would need to be reimplemented.

Cheers,

Alan




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Sent: Mon, February 1, 2010 8:14:53 PM
Subject: Re: [IAEP] LOGO advocacy

Bernie

I have added Logo material at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Presentations#Presentations_on_Logo_Like_Languages

Tony

> [cc iaep]
> 
> Dear Walter,
> 
> the education technology lead at Paraguay Educa, Pacita, is looking for
> some good papers about the benefits of LOGO and similar technologies on
> child development and possible applications to traditional curriculum.
> 
> This will be used for a presentation introducing Turtle Art to teachers
> in Caacupe.
> 
> Some of your presentations entirely done within Turtle Art would also be
> terrific material to show, especially the old one on portfolios.
> 
> If anyone has other material of interest, please send it this way or,
> even better, link it in the wiki where we collect all presentations:
> 
>  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Presentations
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