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ERIC Number: EJ389334
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Logo: Scientific Dedication or Religious Fanaticism in the 1990s?
Maddux, Cleborne D.
Educational Technology, v29 n2 p18-23 Feb 1989
Discusses the appropriate use of Logo and microcomputers in elementary education and gives recommendations for its successful use. Highlights include problems with unsubstantiated claims for the benefits of Logo; the effects of teaching children to program; formal operational thinking; research on Logo; and problem solving and transfer to other domains. (38 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Benefits, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Innovation, Media Research, Microcomputers, Problem Solving, Programing, Transfer of Training
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: LOGO Programing Language; Thinking Skills