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Talking Turtle

by: Papert, Seymour; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.); British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service; Media Guild

Publication date: 1983

Topics: Computer-assisted instruction, Computer-assisted instruction

Publisher: San Diego, CA : Media Guild

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Produced by WGBH and the BBC for the Nova series and the British Open University

Looks at the use of computers in the classroom through the eyes of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Seymour Papert, inventor of the computer language LOGO and father of the "turtle" -- a computerized robot that crawls on the floor and communicates in LOGO, a versatile language even five-year-olds can learn. From the Contemporary Issues in Education series