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On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Kirby Urner wrote:
>
> At the other end of the spectrum were more open ended packages
> which provided a "learning environment" with which students
> could exercise their imaginations and tendencies to explore.
> Seymour Papert's 'Logo', packages providing gizmos for assembling
> contraptions (logic gates, Rube Goldberg devices) fit this
> paradigm.
Speaking of LOGO...
In the early 90s, I was involved in a joint project at Worcester Polytechnic
Institute and Bancroft High School in Worcester MA. BHS is a private
school with _many_ over achievers. The project that I worked on
developed a robotics course at the high school level using the LOGO
language, and robots made from Lego building blocks. In my humble opinion,
the project was a stellar success. I have never seen students more
motiviated to learn. Everything from physics problems to programming to
general problem solving techniques were gobbled up by the students. They
saw need and relevance to the information. Without it, their robots
would not work. Who wouldn't persist at getting their very own Lego
robot to work?
The particular project that I worked on was not the first Lego-LOGO
project at the bancroft school system. It was the first at the high
school level, but for several years, the elementary students there were
involved in less difficult robotics projects (obviously) and in LOGO
animation projects. I trust that those earlier project met with some
success as the school was very interested in developing the upper level
course.
I do not know if the Lego-LOGO projects have continued since '91 (I
strongly hope that they have). Unfortunately, I do not remember the
contact's name at the High School, but you may contact Dr. S Jasperson of
the Physics Department at WPI or myself if you have any further interest.
I hope this is in some way helpful.
-Brian Goetz
Bay de Noc Community College
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