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Seymour Papert and The Turtle, ca. 1968
Courtesy MIT Museum
Mathematics and computer-science professor Seymour Papert, trying to show how fourth graders can use a computer to learn by giving it mathematical commands in order to control a HP display, ca. 1968-1969.
The Turtle, a computer-controlled robot which draws pictures, is used by Seymour Papert in teaching and exploring the processes of learning. Children become entranced with the problems of using logic to direct the Turtle's movements.
MIT in Perspective: A pictorial history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Little, Brown and Company, 1975) by Francis E Wylie, p. 200
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