It has been carefully designed to support the modelling, measurement and control strands of the UK IT National Curriculum. In ToonTalk, the child controls an animated character, building, testing and debugging a program or model. The ToonTalk world resembles a twentieth century city. ToonTalk houses are the building blocks of a program. ToonTalk houses contain animated robots that have been trained to complete small tasks.
Wildlife is limited to birds and their nests.
ToonTalk, however, is a largely self-teaching system that is flexible and expressive. It uses clever intelligent tutoring strategies to help children learn about the Toontalk environment, and about powerful programming and problem solving techniques and ideas. The addition of ToonTalk to the Logotron range is a natural step forward. To design ToonTalk, Ken has taken the original LOGO design philosophies and principles from 30 years ago and re-interpreted them using the latest thinking in visual, object orientated programming design to create a brand new environment specifically for children. In fact with ToonTalk, the whole idea of Logo can be used very successfully by knowledgeable, skilled, and enthusiastic teachers.