10 - Sunday, October 20, 1985 - North Shore News

Computer buffs
hold conference

NORTH

Vancouver outdoor school in
Paradise Valley near Squamish will be the hub of

remote

a worldwide conference that will blend computer

link-ups
tional conference,

The World Logo Con-
ference, Oct. 25 to 27, which
will bring about 75 pro-
fessors, educators and com-
puter enthusiasts 10 Paradise
Valley, will) feature nine
guest speakers on-site.

Their topic will be Logo, a
revolutionary computer
language developed about 10
years ago and now used in
education, One of the guest
speakers will be Seymour
Papert, father of Logo.

The conference kicks off
with a broadcast of a film on
Logo, prepared by SFU, at
7:30 p.m. on the Knowledge
Network.

After the film, Papert will
appear on the Knowledge
Network for a_ half-hour
discussion of Logo. As he
fields phone-in questions in
a live broadcast, he will si-
multaneously be opening the
World Logo Conference.

COMPUTER EXCHANGE

During the weekend, con-
ference members will be
sending selected portions of
each talk to the CompuServ
computer networking system
in Columbus, Ohio. From
here, the speeches are
relayed to computer termi-
nals around the world that
have patched in to the con-
ference through CompuServ.
Watching at these terminals

will be computer clubs, indi-'

vidual hackers, teachers, and
their classes. :

The computer link-up will
come ative at this point,
when these diverse groups
send back comments to the
guest speakers: Ten com-
puters and four printers will
be kept busy printing these
comments,
those at the conference.

Dr. Sandy Dawson of
SFU, a North Vancouver
resident, and Dr. Gerri
Sinclair of SFU are organiz-
ing the conference.

Dawson says he had no
real interest in computers
unul about 1980, when he
realized they would soon
make a dramatic impact on
education. Disappointed
with computer programs
which turned the computer
into nothing more than ‘‘an
electronic page turner,’’ he
was delighted with the in-
teraction and creativity Logo
allowed.

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SIGNIFICANT IMPACT

“Tt seemed to me that
Logo was the only thing
available at that time that
would have a significant im-
pact on education, in terms
of what children could do
with the computer,’ says
Dawson. “They could direct
the computer, rather than
the computer directing
them."’

Logo, says Sinclair, was
developed by Papert and his
colleagues at MIT as an
“immersion'’ computer
course. Its educational pro-
grams have no rigid answers,

Cost of the conference for
those who wish to attend it
in person is $150. This fee
includes a membership with
CompuServ, a consumer in-
formation service that pro-
vides worldwide news,
weather, stock market,
travel and shopping infor-
mation.

For more information on
the World Logo Conference,
call 291-3189 days, or 985-
9294 evenings.

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