The Logo Turtle and the Birth of Thinking: How Computer Literacy Tried to Teach Children to Think

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In 1967, a small robot called the Turtle taught children to program. But it was never about coding. It was about thinking. Today, as AI writes code for us, the Turtle’s lesson is more urgent than ever.

What Was Computer Literacy? Why Knowing Parts of a Computer Was Once Enough

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In 1985, if your child knew what a floppy disk was, she was computer literate. That was not small. It was the beginning of a 40-year journey from computer literacy to AI literacy. To understand AI literacy, we must honor where we started.

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