Arion Bratislava 2006

Hey everybody. I hope you had a lovely X-mas an are enjoying your holiday up to the new year.
Back in Denmark i got so busy - suddenly it was Christmas. And a lot of trouble, I can tell you…Our ICT-system did not work at school - we are changing it all in our new communities at 1.th January 2007. Maybe I’m just getting old…;-), but without ICT no administration…the lessons did work, though.
Thanks to you I am a lot wiser about ICT in education. Our talks made me reflect a lot.
And so many thanks to Malte, who worked so hard for us all!

Hope to hear from you in 2007.
The best wishes    Lisa

The group report is now finished with at nice group photo. Please read and comment. The report will be send to the Arion office just before Christmas. Unfortunately I have misplaced my list with e-mails adresses. Please send me your adress at malte.von.sehested (at) skolekom.dk if you would like to comment in a more private space or just would like to say hello

Download Group Report as PDF.

http://www.european-mediaculture.org/index.php?id=80

Last day of the visit. We have to write our visit report.
Everybody is very concentrate on the task.

Today we heard about the use of the Logo language in Slovak schools. The language was developed in the end of the 1960’s and is mainly build on LISP.

Read the presentation by Peter Tomcsanvi

In Slovakia they use Logo in competitions where the pupils compete in different stages. In the final stage the pupils programmes small games.

In Slovakia they use a version of Logo called Imagine Logo. Read more about Imagine Logo.

StarLogo

In MIT they have developed the language and the newest version here - StarLogo - is now equiped with a graphical programming interface. The focus is not programming but the use of ordering the program by graphical instructing it to do algorithms. From the StarLogo website it states:

StarLogo is a specialized version of the Logo programming language. With traditional versions of Logo, you can create drawings and animations by giving commands to graphic “turtles” on the computer screen. StarLogo extends this idea by allowing you to control thousands of graphic turtles in parallel. In addition, StarLogo makes the turtles’ world computationally active: you can write programs for thousands of “patches” that make up the turtles’ environment. Turtles and patches can interact with one another — for example, you can program the turtles to “sniff” around the world, and change their behaviors based on what they sense in the patches below. StarLogo is particularly well-suited for Artificial Life projects.

Read more about StarLogo on the MIT website.