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

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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
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