Pauline Adams played an important role in the development of educational computing in Victoria and Australia during the 1980s.

Adams completed training and began practicing as a kindergarten teacher during this period. She was first exposed to educational computing, the constructionist educational philosophy of Seymour Papert and the Logo programming language software designed for learning by her husband, Tony Adams, a computer scientist working with RMIT.
Adams put her interest in educational computing into practice in the final year of her studies when she was invited by her psychology lecturer to work with a student in an extension program at Glamorgan primary school that would make use of Logo. She would go on to use Logo with even younger students in kindergarten settings, developing a single-key version of the Logo programming language for this purpose.
With her husband and Anne McDougal, an education academic based at Monash University, Adams co-authored the 'Learning LOGO' educational book series. Four Learning Logo titles were published between 1982 and 1986, providing educators in Australia and beyond with an introduction to the Logo programming language. Notably, at least one title, Learning Logo on the Apple II, was translated into German, French and Chinese.



References

Adams, P. (1985) Various Computers in the Kindergarten. In McDougall, A. (ed.) (1996) Logo in Australia: Ten Years On, Computing in Education Group of Victoria, pp.81-87.

Adams, T., McDougall, A., Adams, P. Adams (1984). Learning LOGO on the TRS-80 color computer. Sydney, Prentice-Hall.

Johnstone, B (2003). Never Mind the Laptops: Kids, Computers, and the Transformation of Learning, iUniverse, Lincoln.

McDougall, A. Adams, T., Adams, P. (1982). Learning LOGO on the Apple II. Sydney, Prentice-Hall.

McDougall, A. Adams, T., Adams, P. (1984). Learning LOGO on the Commodore 64. Carlton, Pitman.

McDougall, A. Adams, T., Adams, P. (1986). Learning Logo on the BBC micro. Sydney, Prentice-Hall.

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