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Microworlds: Building Powerful Ideas in the Secondary School
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Jenkins, Craig William – Online Submission, 2012
In the 1960s, the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) developed a programming language called LOGO. Underpinning this invention was a profound new philosophy of how learners learn. This paper reviews research in the area and asks how one notion in particular, that of a microworld, may be used by secondary school educators to build powerful…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Programming, STEM Education, Secondary School Science