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These original essays summarize a decade of fruitful research and curriculum development using the LISP-derived language Logo. They discuss a range of issues in the areas of curriculum, learning, and mathematics, illustrating the ways in which Logo continues to provide a rich learning environment, one that allows pupil autonomy within challenging mathematical settings.Essays in the first section discuss the link between Logo and the school mathematics curriculum, focusing on the ways in which pupils' Logo activities relate to and are influenced by the ideas they encounter in the context of school algebra and geometry.In the second section the contributions take up pedagogical styles and strategies. They tackle such cognitive and metacognitive questions as, What range of learning styles can the Logo setting accommodate? How can teachers make sense of pupils' preferred strategies? And how can teachers help students to reflect on the strategies they are using?Returning to the mathematical structures, essays in the third section consider a variety of mathematical ideas, drawing connections between mathematics and computing and showing the ways in which constructing Logo programs helps or does not help to illuminate the underlying mathematics.Celia Hoyles; is Professor of Mathematics Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, where Richard Noss is Chair of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing. ... Read more

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Filled with striking illustrations, this book offers an exciting exploration of Logo graphics for designers, architects, liberal arts students, and other individuals who are interested in creative applications of computers.Visual Modeling with Logo introduces the programming concepts necessary for describing and manipulating some of the basic visual structures in the world around us. Logo is a language that encourages visual problem-solving and helps us expand our understanding of how we see.The book provides a wide range of exercises for investigating the many dimensions and component parts of seeing; it proceeds from the simple to the complex, using representative models based on circular grids, rectangular grids, Islamic designs, organic forms, and different spatial systems.James Clayson is an Associate Professor at the American College in Paris. He wrote Visual Modeling with Logo for a course he created at the Parsons School of Design, Paris. It is included in the series Explorations in Logo, edited by E. Paul Goldenberg. ... Read more

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I have take a course AND read this book...
I study in the American University of Paris and I was lucky enough to take the LOGO - Visual Thinking course in my freshman year with Professor Clayson, the author of this book. I am inclined to think that anybody who might want to take advantage of an utterly simply computational environment to explore tiles, matrices, objects, etc. visually would be very interested in this book. It gives you theory and indications of using perhaps one of the most easily operated and logical computer languages available to be able to look at various visual objects and ideas. I highly recommend this book to anybody who is attracted to non-traditional ways of thinking and problem-solving, which involves building of simplified models to make sense of more complex ideas. ... Read more

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This book should be of interest to teachers and student teachers using Logo. ... Read more

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Exploring Language with Logo invites the reader to participate actively in the play and work of the linguist. It is the first comprehensive presentation of Logo's highly developed, well publicized, but vastly underused language-manipulation capability. Throughout the book, experimental projects and compelling examples of language in use are chosen to stimulate interest in and promote exploration of the structure, function, and history of language. The treatment is both serious and playful.Using this book, readers can teach a machine how to produce words, phrases, and sentences and at the same time gain insight into both the elegance and the complexity of language. The book teaches Logo technique as it is needed for specific explorations, with the goal of providing readers with enough programming independence to design their own sophisticated language-manipulation programs.The first part takes up the grammar of sentences, poems, and stories -syntax, semantics, and style, the orderliness of language in units larger than a word. The second explores the structure in the microscopic worlds within words - morphology, orthography, and phonology. The reader is invited to model the structure of words, create procedures that know how to spell, discover the ways words are affected when affixes are added, and to work with projects on word roots, historical changes in words, and conjugations and declensions in English and other languages.This inventive and innovative text is readable both with and without the computer. It will challenge and excite anyone interested in learning or teaching language and linguistics.E. Paul Goldenberg is Researcher and Developer at Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, adjunct faculty in education at Lesley College, and former Director of the Computer Center at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. Wallace Feurzeig is Division Scientist of the Information Sciences Division at BBN Laboratories, Cambridge. Exploring Language with Logo is included in the series Explorations in Logo, edited by E. Paul Goldenberg. ... Read more

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what an odd, clever book!
This book is basically about using simple programs in Logo to generate natural language at various levels, mainly syntax and morphology, but also some phonology and, you could say, etymology.There are also interestingand often profound digressions into the history of English, various aspectsof synchronic and diachronic linguistics, and even what it means toformulate a linguistic theory.Parts of this book feel like a goodintro-linguistics book, parts of it feel like a jr-high or high schoolintro-to-programming book, and parts of it feel like just a fun bookwritten by people enthusiastic about language.

First off, this book isinteresting and entertaining just to read on one's own.

Second off, thiscould form the basis of a course (or part of one) in, well, exploringlanguage, at any level from junior high to college.This book could justas easily be useful for a ninth-grade computer science teacher to pull twoor three exercises out of, as it could be for someone devising a collegecourse based entirely around this book.

Now, I was somewhat surprised byLogo having been the language chosen for this book, but: 1) it's a harmlesschoice, and the code in the book is easily intelligible to people with aprogramming background but no knowledge of Logo; 2) I don't consider any ofthe points in the book to depend on the choice of language; and 3) anyinstructor who felt the use of Logo to be problematic could easily providestudents with translations of the code into some other language, or maybejust teach them just enough Logo to be able to read the examples. ... Read more

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This manual aims to give a thorough knowledge of the basic features of the programming language logo, including recursion and list manipulation. It takes the reader through logo in a structured order and covers the main versions of logo which have been implemented on the BBC, RML, Apple II and Spectrum microcomputers. The manual is based on in-service courses for teachers given by the authors. ... Read more

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Greatest Programming book ever
This is the greatest programmming book ever.It takes you from the basicsof Logo to the level of a guru.No matter what people say logo is thegreatest language ever.I love it, and this book explains it beautifully. ... Read more

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* Designed for those courses and in-service teachers who want to teach Logo as well as learn it. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), published by T.H.E. Journal, LLC on August 1, 1992. The length of the article is 2986 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Logo programming language, which was developed to meet the need for a user-friendly platform for the development of educational software across a broad geographic and cultural spectrum, is being utilized in projects from Senegal to Chile. Logo's adoption is dependent on a number of factors including economic conditions, political conditions as they relate to perceptions of cost-benefit, the nature of curriculum planning and organizational conditions. The adoption of Logo-based programs is hindered by the resistance of teachers to abandoning traditional teaching methods. On the other hand, as a number of projects are demonstrating, Logo-based programs can serve such long-range educational goals as fostering higher-order thinking and problem-solving.

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Title: Cross-cultural transfer of a programming language. (the Logo programming language offers a means of advancing educational goals across a cultural and geographic spectrum)
Author: Dennis O. Harper
Publication: T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 1992
Publisher: T.H.E. Journal, LLC
Volume: v20Issue: n1Page: p66(5)

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