Logo Programming and Problem Solving. [Technical Report No. 12.] [microform] / Roy D. Pea
- Bib ID:
- 5518059
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Pea, Roy D
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED319371
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1983
- 10 p.
- Summary:
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This paper discusses five points related to developmental research on children learning to do Logo programming: (1) systematic developmental research documenting what children are learning as they learn to program is necessary; (2) Logo is cognitively complex beyond its early steps and difficult to learn without instructional guidance; (3) the pedagogical fantasy that Logo can serve as a stand-alone center in classrooms for learning programming and thinking skills does not work; (4) after a year of programming in Logo, following the discovery-learning pedagogy, a group of children did not display greater planning skills than a matched group who did not do Logo programming; and (5) it is necesary to develop an instructional science for teaching programming and to rethink the educational goals programming is meant to fill. Findings of three studies on children learning to program and the cognitive outcomes of such programming are reported: the first was a study of the level of programming expertise children had developed by the year's end; the second consisted of systematic probes of the depth of understanding of programming concepts in studies with individual children; and the last asked whether children doing programming developed planning skills that they spontaneously transferred beyond programming. (19 references) (MES)
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- Sponsoring Agency: Spencer Foundation, Chicago, IL.
- ERIC Note: Paper presented at an American Educational Research Association Symposium (Montreal, Canada, April 1983) as "Chameleon in the Classroom: Developing Roles for Computers.".
- Educational level discussed: Elementary Secondary Education.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Bank Street Coll. of Education, New York, NY. Center for Children and Technology
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