The Logo Turtle - created by Seymour Papert (b. 1928)
Seymour Papert is a computer scientist, mathematician, and educator at MIT.
The logo programming language (1967), is conceived to command movement and teach concepts of programming. This was what controlled the 'Logo Turtle'.
Children were taught how to use the 'turtle' by imagining they were moving as the turtle. This was called 'body-syntonic reasoning'.
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| Seymour Papert with his initial 'Logo Turtle' [Figure 1] |
This device allowed children to learn to use computers in 'masterful ways', and the ability to use computers changes the way people learn everything else.
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Figure 1 -
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