{"id":1066,"date":"2007-10-16T14:20:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T19:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studytools.psych.und.nodak.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2008-01-07T16:12:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T21:12:31","slug":"logo-reaches-middle-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/logo-reaches-middle-age\/","title":{"rendered":"LOGO reaches middle age"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may be of the impression that technology in education is a recent phenomenon. You may also be surprised to learn that we have reached the 40th birthday of LOGO<\/a>. If you don’t know what LOGO is, you must also be a digital native – one of those folks who assumes he\/she is a natural user without really experiencing the changes that have brought us to the point where we are today. The origin of LOGO was a little before my time as an active computer user, but I did have experience with LOGO as an educational application.<\/p>\n

So, for you Web 2.0 digital newbies, I dug a few LOGO images out of the vault. LOGO was a very capable language that was typically used at a very simple level to allow students to experience a “computational” perspective on geometry and learn some fundamental programming skills.<\/p>\n

\"LOGO<\/p>\n

A program\/script might look something like this (after defining square):<\/p>\n

TO BLACKHOLE :SIDE<\/p>\n

SQUARE :SIDE<\/p>\n

RT 12<\/p>\n

Make “SIDE :SIDE*.985<\/p>\n

IF :SIDE.5 [STOP]<\/p>\n

BLACKHOLE :SIDE<\/p>\n

END<\/p>\n

\"LOGO<\/p>\n

Time for this old man’s afternoon power nap. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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You may be of the impression that technology in education is a recent phenomenon. You may also be surprised to learn that we have reached the 40th birthday of LOGO. If you don’t know what LOGO is, you must also be a digital native – one of those folks who assumes he\/she is a natural … Continue reading LOGO reaches middle age<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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