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Solomon, Cynthia J.; Papert, Seymour – 1976
This paper describes and comments on a seven year old's experiences with turtle graphics in order to explore some important issues with regard to using computers in education and to probe into the question of what programming ideas and projects will engage young children. The case study which is described took place at the Artificial Intelligence…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics
Papert, Seymour – Mathematics Teaching, 1972
Children write computer programs to instruct each other. (MM)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Curriculum
Papert, Seymour; Solomon, Cynthia – 1971
Ideas about computers in education are usually limited to transactions of a conversational form between students and machines. Computers, however, can do many other things and it is only inertia and prejudice, not lack of ideas, which stand in the way of broadening the range of computer applications in schools. Several examples, over half of which…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science Education
Papert, Seymour – Principal, 1986
The coauthor and developer of Logo (a computer programming language for children) describes (1) the changes in his responses to debates about computers in education, (2) some of the uses of the new LogoWriter in the classroom, and (3) how one fifth-grade class used LogoWriter in a biology unit. (IW)
Descriptors: Biology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education