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Re:Past and Future Turtles: The Evolution of the Logo Progra... by empressplay on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:44PM (#27238171)
It's definitely a tough one when thinking about marketing Logo, because the educators do need to be Logo-savvy for it to work in a classroom setting and it's hard to convince them to take the time to learn it properly themselves. That's why I think it's better to try to get contemporary Logo into code camps, because the facilitators are more motivated and have some enthusiasm for it. But we'll see :)

Could you please e-mail me at melody at retrocoders.org ? I'd love to chat with you about BBN. We're in Victoria

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Re:Past and Future Turtles: The Evolution of the Logo Progra... by bitwize on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:13PM (#27239309)
That's the problem with just about every well-meaning "computers in education" program, even more recent efforts like OLPC. The teachers have to understand the power of the machine and the insights and abstract critical thinking that can be taught through it. Most teachers are like the sort I grew up with: they would hold floppy disks by sticking their fingers through the hole in the middle. And they mishandled kids even more destructively, treating them like vessels into which it was their job to pour the curriculum.
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Re:Past and Future Turtles: The Evolution of the Logo Progra... by floren on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:58PM (#27239881)
> they would hold floppy disks by sticking their fingers through the hole in the middle.

I bet that's a habit from 45rpm records...

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Re:Past and Future Turtles: The Evolution of the Logo Progra... by vincent-manis on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:55PM (#27238335)
Will do!
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