Learn with Turtles
In a time when AI can give us answers,
what children need is the experience of thinking for themselves.
What is Turtles?
By giving commands to an on-screen turtle, children can create shapes and projects while naturally exploring programming and mathematical thinking.
- Learn in your web browser
- Advanced iPad version
- Offline Windows version
Learning for the Age of AI
As AI continues to evolve, the foundation of learning is changing.
Answers are now available instantly, and AI can even generate programs and writing.
In this kind of age, what matters is not the correct answer itself, but the thinking process behind it.
The Idea Behind Turtle Graphics
Dr. Seymour Papert, who proposed turtle graphics as an educational approach, defined learning in this way:
Learning is not being taught knowledge, but creating meaning for yourself.
Based on this idea, learning through making became especially important.
- Think for yourself
- Try things out
- Fix them when they do not work
Through this repeated process, understanding becomes deeper.
In turtle graphics, the turtle is designed to be an "object-to-think-with".
Through the turtle’s movement, children can test their own ideas, look at the results, and revise them. In this way, they experience a cycle of thinking.
The Concept of Turtles
This app reinterprets the idea of turtle graphics for today’s learning environment, based on Papert’s philosophy.
The controls are kept as simple as possible, and the functions are intentionally limited so that learners can focus on thinking.
As a result, children can experience what it means to think for themselves and find their own ways to solve problems.
What we value is not reaching the right answer quickly, but the experience of thinking.
- The ability to think independently
- The ability to learn through trial and error
- The ability to think logically
No special preparation is needed.
It all starts by trying it for yourself.
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