Reflections on the History of Computers in Education Early Use of Computers and Teaching about Computing in Schools

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.

Lessons from the Great Underground Empire: Pedagogy, Computers and False Dawn.- No One Is Born a Global Citizen: Using New Technologies to Bring ‘Other Stories’ into the Classroom.- Learning Along with Your Students: Projects from the Graduate Diploma of Computer Education.- Introduction of Computers in Primary Schools in Norway – From Experiments to Implementation.- Information Literacy in the Netherlands: Rise, Fall and Revival.- From Student Geek to Teacher Geek Chic – Reflections on How Computers Were Used while as a Student and then as a Teacher.- Whatever You Do . . . . Don’t Put the Computer Room Near the Maths Department! or, I Was an Early Adopter, an Enthusiastic Disseminator, But Now.- The Beginnings of Computer Use in Primary and Secondary Education in Spain.- Early Uses of Computers in Schools in the United Kingdom: Shaping Factors and Influencing Directions.- Theoretical and Epistemological Foundations of Integrating Digital Technologies in Education in the Second Half of the 20th Century.- The Introduction of Computers in Irish Schools.- The Rise of Information and Communication Technology Era in the Israeli Educational System.- The Hopes and Realities of the Computer as a School Administration and School Management Tool.- Computers in Schools in the USA: A Social History.- The Dutch Situation: An Ever Continuing Story.- Computers in Education in Finland.- Schools, Students, Computers and Curriculum in Victoria in the 1970s and 1980s.- The First 25 Years of Computers in Education in Poland: 1965 – 1990.- Catching the Bug: Pupils and Punched Cards in South Africa in the Late 1970s.- From Mathematics Teacher to Computer Assisted Learning Researcher.- The Victorian State Computer Education Committee’s Seeding Pair In-Service Program: Two Case Studies.- The Historical Relationship between Affective Variables and ICT Based Learning and Instruction and Achievement in the Israeli School System.- Predicting the Future of Computers inSchools – A Reflection Paper?.- Experiences as a Student in Chile with only Pre-computer Technologies.- Reflections on Computers in Education 1984 – 2001: The Logo Continuum.- From Learning to Use Towards Learning to Code: Twenty-Five Years of Computing in Dutch Schools.- Pioneering the Internet in the Nineties – An Innovative Project Involving UK and Australian Schools.- The Educational Programming Language Logo: Its Nature and Its Use in Australia.- My Work among the Keyboards: Remembering the Early Use of Computers in the Classroom.- Reflections on the Beginnings of an Educational Revolution (?).