Lifting the hood to see how something works: developing a Logo core as a part of a web-based course for teachers
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The paper deals with the educational strategy applied when designing a Logo Core as a part of a course on Logo for teachers, developed in the frames of the European NETLogo Initiative. The idea behind the Logo Core is to enable teachers to lift the hood of the Logo applications to see how they work and hopefully become themselves developers with Logo. Integrating some well known educational principles with the potential of a rich computational environment of an exploratory type in the context of the WWW as the main delivery platform is suggested.
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