Reflections on the History of Computers in Education: Early Use of Computers and Teaching about Computing in Schools (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology)

This book is a collection of refereed invited papers on the history of computing in education from the 1970s to the mid-1990s presenting a social history of the introduction and early use of computers in schools. The 30 papers deal with the introduction of computer in schools in many countries around the world: Norway, South Africa, UK, Canada, Australia, USA, Finland, Chile, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Ireland, Israel and Poland. The authors are not professional historians but rather people who as teachers, students or researchers were involved in this history and they narrate their experiences from a personal perspective offering fascinating stories. Front Matter....Pages - Lessons from the Great Underground Empire: Pedagogy, Computers and False Dawn....Pages 1-25 No One Is Born a Global Citizen: Using New Technologies to Bring ‘Other Stories’ into the Classroom....Pages 26-47 Learning Along with Your Students: Projects from the Graduate Diploma of Computer Education....Pages 48-70 Introduction of Computers in Primary Schools in Norway – From Experiments to Implementation....Pages 71-82 Information Literacy in the Netherlands: Rise, Fall and Revival....Pages 83-93 From Student Geek to Teacher Geek Chic – Reflections on How Computers Were Used while as a Student and then as a Teacher....Pages 94-109 Whatever You Do . . . . Don’t Put the Computer Room Near the Maths Department! or, I Was an Early Adopter, an Enthusiastic Disseminator, But Now . . .....Pages 110-120 The Beginnings of Computer Use in Primary and Secondary Education in Spain....Pages 121-130 Early Uses of Computers in Schools in the United Kingdom: Shaping Factors and Influencing Directions....Pages 131-149 Theoretical and Epistemological Foundations of Integrating Digital Technologies in Education in the Second Half of the 20 th Century....Pages 150-163 The Introduction of Computers in Irish Schools....Pages 164-173 The Rise of Information and Communication Technology Era in the Israeli Educational System....Pages 174-196 The Hopes and Realities of the Computer as a School Administration and School Management Tool....Pages 197-202 Computers in Schools in the USA: A Social History....Pages 203-211 The Dutch Situation: An Ever Continuing Story....Pages 212-238 Computers in Education in Finland....Pages 239-245 Schools, Students, Computers and Curriculum in Victoria in the 1970s and 1980s....Pages 246-265 The First 25 Years of Computers in Education in Poland: 1965 – 1990....Pages 266-290 Catching the Bug: Pupils and Punched Cards in South Africa in the Late 1970s....Pages 291-301 From Mathematics Teacher to Computer Assisted Learning Researcher....Pages 302-309 The Victorian State Computer Education Committee’s Seeding Pair In-Service Program: Two Case Studies....Pages 310-323 The Historical Relationship between Affective Variables and ICT Based Learning and Instruction and Achievement in the Israeli School System....Pages 324-338 Predicting the Future of Computers in Schools – A Reflection Paper?....Pages 339-346 Experiences as a Student in Chile with only Pre-computer Technologies....Pages 347-364 Reflections on Computers in Education 1984 – 2001: The Logo Continuum....Pages 365-372 From Learning to Use Towards Learning to Code: Twenty-Five Years of Computing in Dutch Schools....Pages 373-383 Pioneering the Internet in the Nineties – An Innovative Project Involving UK and Australian Schools....Pages 384-393 The Educational Programming Language Logo: Its Nature and Its Use in Australia....Pages 394-407 My Work among the Keyboards: Remembering the Early Use of Computers in the Classroom....Pages 408-416 Reflections on the Beginnings of an Educational Revolution (?)....Pages 417-422 Back Matter....Pages - "This book deals with personal reflections on the history of computers in school education ... the history of computers in education from the 1970s up to only about the mid-1990s, before the widespread use in education of the Internet ... The chapters in this book deal with the introduction of computers in schools in many countries around the world: Norway, South Africa, UK, Canada, Australia, USA, Finland, Chile, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Ireland, Israel, and Poland."--Preface