LEARNING & CREATION OF DIGITAL ART
What is Turtle Art?
Turtle Art is software for creating digital art. Users design through connecting blocks of programming code together in sets of instructions for a turtle to carry out. Turtle Art is designed with a “low floor” and a “high ceiling” meaning it can be tinkered with by very young learners and used to design sophisticated digital art for more experienced users.
Why use Turtle Art?
Edutainment software, that which coerces kids into “learning”, is based on simple ideas and low level thinking. Turtle Art offers an alternative to this and provides an open-ended canvas where the students imagination is the limit. Using the drag & drop (block) programming learners can easily learn to program the turtle to operate as they see fit. Learning to program helps students to learn how to learn.
Getting Started
Visit www.turtleart.org to learn more about Turtle Art and for a quick getting started guide.
Get Turtle Art
If you would like a free copy of Turtle Art, email a request to contact@turtleart.org. They like to know who is using Turtle Art and where it is being used so be sure to mention my name when you send in your request.
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Further Reading:
- Work by Dr. Seymour Papert
- The Daily Papert
- Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas
- The Children’s Machine
- The Connected Family
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