3V1275.1

3V1275.01 Computer “rods” (7/20/81) Seeing the trouble she had with the rods always falling over, I asked is a Rods microworld would be easier to manipulate and thus intellectually more accessible to her. So I proceeded to make one, substituting (a later idea) the blinking of numbers in place of partial blanks — that is …

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3V1233.1

3V1233.01 Peggy’s first Word World: a summary description (6/8/81) Objects: SUN (base color) (via UPx N) (help with WALK/SLOWERx2) GIRL (base color) (Via DOWN x N=4 (started at road) CAR (help with GREEN) (help with MOVE) (via DOWN x 5) (help with WALK/ FAST) DOG (base color) (help with MOVE) (via DOWN x 1) HOUSE …

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3V1185.1

3V1185.01 Computer at home: TI-99 (4/21/81) I finally brought home a TI-99 from the Logo lab. The machine’s storage extension is very flakey and the tape recorder would not work well for the first week or so. Consequently it was hard to program little systems for Peggy. We began using the computer in experiments with …

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3V1184.1

3V1184.01 Blocks microworld: Moving Blocks (4/20/81) Peggy has experienced a number of insights in her developing control of the little blocks microworld. The record of her discovery of “BK” is in P169. This is a significant and meaningful operation for her when the block has a forward velocity. In the case “BK” interrupts the velocity …

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3V1109.2

3V1109.02 Trip to Logo: typical stories (2/14-15/81) Peggy, Robby and I went to MIT after story hour. Danny Moore came to the lab late in the afternoon and I tended Peggy while Robby played with him. What I recall of this time is that Peggy and I went to DSRE for my Spencer Foundation letter, …

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3V1104.1

3V1104.01 “Gepeters” [computers]: incremental lexicon standardization (1/30/81) Peggy wants to go to Logo (whatever that means to her) and also asked if she ‘could play with the gepeters at Logo.’ Later, her use slipped into the standard form by first appearing a ‘geputers’ then as ‘computers.’

3V0916.1

3V0916.01 Commitment to an interpretation: [go pick the lady grass.](7/26/80) Miriam has been given the job of picking grass out of the driveway and she resists it mightily. I recently scolded her and told her to go pick out every blade of grass at the turn (the grass had slowed drainage and caused some flooding). …

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Vignette 86.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 131.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 111.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 97.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 94.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 92.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 82.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 81.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 58.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 51.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.

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Vignette 44.1 of The Intimate Study source materials. Unpublished. Robert W. Lawler.