Rod Hampton of Wellesley College profiled the use of Scratch and Logo software to offer opportunities to practice thinking and problem solving skills. The software provides simple programming language modules which can be used by the learner to move an object (cat, basketball etc) around the page. The movement of the object creates a drawing or diagram. He showed examples of how students had used the software to draw bikes, robots and geometric patterns.
Scratch is available free.
If you have your own children or grandchildren you might like to provide them with a copy as an alterative to play station and computer games.
Links
Scratch
Ross's Blog
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