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Kahn, Ken – 1999
ToonTalk is an animated interactive world inside of which one can construct a very large range of computer programs. These programs are not constructed by typing text or arranging icons, but by taking actions in this world. Robots can be trained, birds can be given messages to deliver, and so on. This paper describes the design and preliminary…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Children, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Games
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Mor, Yishay; Noss, Richard; Hoyles, Celia; Kahn, Ken; Simpson, Gordon – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2006
This paper reports on a design experiment in the domain of number sequences conducted in the course of the "WebLabs" project. We iteratively designed and tested a set of activities and tools in which 10-14 year old students used the "ToonTalk" programming environment to construct models of sequences and series, and then shared…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Programming, Algebra, Foreign Countries