History of Computers in Schools

History of Computers in Education Jolina Shue EDUC 515 - Educational Technology & Learning San Diego Regional Center Master’s Digital Teaching & Learning Professor: Jeff McKendricks Summer 2009

A brief history 1965: Mainframes and Microcomputers put into schools - used mostly for administration and counseling. 1960’s: Computers used in education for computer- assisted instruction (CAI). Purpose was to help students with skills, not advance their knowledge through higher order thinking activities.

1975: Apple I Computers donated to schools. 1980’s: Teachers afraid they would be replaced by computers & fearful of computer malfunctions. Overall, the 80’s had little in the way of educational soft ware. Teacher’s were asking, “how do I use a computer in my classroom?” Educational philosophy at the time - students needed to know how the computer worked (programing language).

Students sent to a computer lab to learn by a computer teacher. 1983: Belief surfacing that computers can be used to support teaching. Apple II Computers ﬁnd widespread acceptance in education and Apple develops computer based tutorials and learning games.

With the development of AppleWorks, school computers had word processing, spreadsheet, database, paint and draw application. This caused a move away from teaching programming. 1992: Many computers in schools, but they could not manage the latest soft ware available and were using gopher ser vers to provide students with online information.

Computing power was surpassing the capacity and budgets of schools and they were left with outdates computers. Early 1990’s: textbook companies were pairing textbooks with laser disks. Barcodes used in texts with a barcode reader allowed teachers to access resources on the laser disc (ﬁlm footage, video clips, still images & diagrams). 1993: Barcodes placed on library books - no more paper library cards to check out books. 1995: Internet starting to be used in schools.

1996: New graphics ad multimedia tools are developed for delivery of information and instruction using the internet. Schools start re- wiring for internet access. 1997-present: Schools continually attempt to integrate computers into direct instruction, but lack of money and unchanging mindsets place roadblocks on technology integration.

Sadly, although computers are present in the classrooms, teaching styles have not changed much.

References California State Long Beach University. History, the history of computers,and the history of computers in education. <http://www.csulb.edu/~murdock/histofcs.html>. Retrieved June 25, 2009. IGI Global. A brief history of computers, computing in education. <https:/ /igi-pub.com/downloads/excerpts/ SchifterExc.pdf>. Retrieved June 25, 2009. Google Images

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