This document summarizes how personal computers have changed teaching and learning. It discusses how in the 1970s at Sonoma State College there were no computers in the library and audio labs were considered high tech. It then highlights several pioneers in educational technology, including H. Dean Brown who suggested computers could be used for education in the 1950s. The document discusses how personal computers allowed students to learn about systems, programs, simulations, authorship, control, and collaboration. However, it notes that to date personal computers have changed teaching very little, but the new environment they provide for communication and information storage holds hope for the future.

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How the Personal Computer
Changed
Teaching and Learning
Vintage Computer Festival
Rome - 2019
by
Liza Loop
presentation to the
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Ecology
Technology
Economics
Education
Psychology
Anthropology
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Sonoma State College 1970’s
• Rural
• No computers in the library
• Audio labs = high tech
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https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102722185
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Find a copy of
Sharing Your Computer Hobby
with the Kids
at
http://www.loopcntr.net/repository/2596.pdf
• Personal Stories?
• Vintage Ed Software?
• What’s the Future?
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“Dean was also a computer scientist. He is
actually the first person, back in the 1950s, to
suggest that computers would have applications
in the field of education. He worked with the
United Nations for several years introducing this
technology to various countries around the
world. One project involved installing computers
throughout the educational system of Spain. At
this time he wrote a fascinating little book on the
essentials of learning.”
from http://www.intuitionnetwork.org/Brown.htm
H. Dean Brown
August 13, 1927 – June 24, 2003
See
https://fmbr.org/cosmic-law-dean-brown/ and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Dean_Brown for more details about Dean
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http://dougengelbart.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdPN_QMjbCs
Engelbart Mouse at SRI
http://www.loopcntr.net/repository/1287.jpg
Lud
Braun
Project
Solo
http://loopcntr.net/catalog_new/identify_view.php
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http://www.loopcntr.net/repository/1202.pdf
Bob Albrecht
Publications
http://www.loopcntr.net/repository/1508.jpg
http://loopcntr.net/catalog_new/bibliography_view.php
1963
1985
1989
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HCLE.ORG
http://loopcntr.net/catalog_new/identify_view.php
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Back to
the 1970’s
http://www.loopcntr.net/repository/1099.jpg
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published 1976
download a copy:
http://www.loopcntr.net/
repository/2596.pdf
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http://
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repository/2647.pdf
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Getting Online
in
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Image source:
https://www.toplessrobot.com/2013/10/the_nineteen_coolest_illustrations_from_star_trek.php
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What they learned…
• Systems
• Programs
• Simulations
• Authorship
• Control
• Collaboration
• Peeragogy
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Peeragogy
Handbook
http://peeragogy.github.io
Peeragogy is a
collection of
techniques for
collaborative learning
and collaborative
work.
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Seymour Papert
Author of “Mindstorms”
and LOGO
https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/mindstorms-what-did-papert-argue-and-what-does-it-mean-for-learning-
and-education-c8324b58aca4
http://www.columbia.edu/~jrh29/kemeny.html
Timesharing for Education
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What happened?
‘70s…dreaming
‘80s, ‘90s & ‘00s
…personal computer developed
this decade (the teens)
…the internet
the future
…
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https://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/features/digital-agriculture-empowers-farmers/story/242966.html
Digital agriculture empowers farmers
David Bergvinson Delhi Print Edition: January 15, 2017
from “Business Today”
One
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ARPANet, Original Sketch (DARPA)
http://theconversation.com/how-the-internet-was-born-the-arpanet-comes-to-life-68062
From this
To this
Two
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Three
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https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/technology/technology-in-schools-faces-
questions-on-value.html
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The “virtual school”
The blended classroom
Project-based learning (teaching)
Open Educational Resources
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https://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud
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https://medium.com/@isabelmoino/let-f1a3053148ee

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Can Tamil
speaking 12 year olds
learn the biotechnology
of DNA replication in
English by themselves
from a street side
computer?
The method of the grandmother:
Stand behind them. Whenever they
do anything say,
“Well. Wow! How did you do that?”
Learning is
the product of
educational
self-organization
Sugata
Mitra
https://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud
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Self Organizing Learning Environments
https://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud
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https://www.slideshare.net/LizaLoop1/teaching-tree?qid=ac565d4d-3325-4185-
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How has Personal Computer
Changed
Learning ?
Very little.
Learning is the same.
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How has Personal Computer
Changed
Teaching ?
To date, very little.
But there is hope.
We have a new environment for teaching:
Communication — Information Storage
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lizaloop@loopcenter.org
Thank you
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