<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Yes. Logo!<br> <br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/logo/turtle.html">http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/logo/turtle.html</a><br> <br> On 1/10/12 8:41 PM, Dave Redell wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:CAE-crHMX-pTbJn1hK+QhGYYKGKVVxK0ya1SRh14An8OY3pOURg@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">That was Seymour Papert's Logo program. See for example: <div><br> </div> <div>    <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics</a><br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Elizabeth Feinler <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:feinler@earthlink.net">feinler@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div style="word-wrap:break-word">Do any of you remember the "turtle" at MIT AI lab where children under school age learned to program the turtle to move in various directions by choosing the right cards with signs on them and putting them in the proper order.  This was being done in the early 70s.  I've forgotten who led the work but could probably dig it  out.  The idea was that kids could program computers before they even knew how to read.  That took "literacy" to a new level.  The kids loved it and could make the turtle do all kinds of stunts. <div> <br> </div> <br> </div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </blockquote> </body> </html>