[MWForum]research project help

[Daniel Ajoy]

On 10 Jul 2004 at 11:53, Wendy Petti wrote:

> > I'm curious as to its status in the
> > broader educational community of today, and the status of the "give
> > kids the tools to figure it out" philosophy which goes with it, at
> > least in regards to computing.  My impression is that Logo users are
> > like the lone Apple computer fanatic in an office of PCs.  Is this
> > accurate?
> 
> I've sometimes felt this way, or, as Daniel Ajoy has remarked, like the
> Linux hacker.  

Hi everyone, 

Wendy is referring to this reply I sent to the LogoForum:


>    From: Karen Randall <john.stclair@verizon.net>
> Subject: research project help
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm taking a three-session university course on computer applications 
> and teaching and chose to learn more about the history of Logo for my 
> required research project.  I've been enjoying working through on-line 
> papers on the topic but have a couple questions which they don't really 
> answer.  I'd be interested in thoughts from people in this users group. 
>   The deadline needs to be Sunday, July 11, though, if you'd like to 
> influence the conclusions in my presentation!
> 
> I used Logo in the 1980s, then lost track of it until introduced to 
> MicroWorlds a couple years ago. I'm curious as to its status in the 
> broader educational community of today, and the status of the "give 
> kids the tools to figure it out" philosophy which goes with it, at 
> least in regards to computing.  My impression is that Logo users are 
> like the lone Apple computer fanatic in an office of PCs.  Is this 
> accurate?

I don't think so.

Being the PCs what? Kidpix?

It is more like "Logo users are like the few Linux hackers in an office
full of office-tools users"

> In your opinion, how wide-spread is the use of Logo in 2004, in 
> whatever format?

We use it:
http://www.openworldlearning.org/results.htm

And they do too:
http://www.microworlds.com/links/index.html

> Are there parts of the US and world where Logo is more solidly part of 
> current instruction? 

Could it be here?
http://user.edi.fmph.uniba.sk/tomcsanyiova/indexA.html

Or here?
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=mswlogo+australia


Daniel
OpenWorld Learning (OWL)
http://mia.openworldlearning.org