Dr. Valentina Dagiene (Lithuania)
Problems of Teaching Logo as a Part of Informatics
Informatics has been a compulsory school subject in Lithuanian secondary
schools for ten years. Two years ago Logo was recommended to be included into
the syllabus of informatics for lower level students (6th or 7th grade). It
gave a possibility to provide the children with knowledge from various areas of
activities, to develop their creative skills, logical, critical thinking, and
to prepare them for using computers in the future. Problems connected with
software teaching materials have been solved: “LogoWriter" system (version
3.10) was translated into Lithuanian, a reference guide to Logo was published,
a project book for teaching was written. The main two trends in teaching Logo -
Logo as a tool for projects and Logo as a tool for programming - are discussed
in detail. At the end of the paper the Logo teaching syllabus is presented.
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