MicroWorlds Potential for Creating Educational Software for School

• Main Author: Alla A. Vitukhnovskaya
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: karelian
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.123.7252; http://www.di.unito.it/~barbara/MicRobot/AttiEuroLogo2007/proceedings/P-Vitukhnovskaya.pdf

In the department of Elementary education Karelian State Pedagogical University within the framework of specialization "Teacher of mathematics and informatics into 1- 6 classes " the twolevel process of instruction in the Logo programming language is being carried out. During the first stage (in the special course "Basics of Programming in logo Language") the bases of Logo programming language are studied. The purpose of the second special course- "Information and communication technologies in elementary education "- is forming the skills of would-be teachers in the field of design and developing the complex designs- educational software for primary school (ES) with the use of Logo programming language. In the process of creation of projects the students become acquainted with the technology of the creation of projects, they generalize and systematize knowledge, obtained earlier: � the means of the conclusion of information, organization of dialogue, change of personnel, etc are revealed; � compare the different methods of obtaining of one and the same result; � select the optimum method of achievement of the objective as a result of search and research activity students they create individual projects. In the article the ideas and the practical decisions of the students, who found embodiment in the finished projects from mathematics, informatics, biology and to other subjects of the course of our long-standing work on the course, are generalized. The formulated author's theses are illustrated by the fragments of the programs, developed by students (example of the assessment frame from the program on the informatics).