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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.
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IFIP AICT 424 Arthur Tatnall Bill Davey (Eds.) Reflections on the History of Computers in Education Early Use of Computers and Teaching about Computing in Schools 123 IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 424 Editor-in-Chief A. Joe Turner, Seneca, SC, USA Editorial Board Foundations of Computer Science Jacques Sakarovitch, Télécom ParisTech, France Software: Theory and Practice Michael Goedicke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Education Arthur Tatnall, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia Information Technology Applications Erich J. Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria Communication Systems Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands System Modeling and Optimization Fredi Tröltzsch, TU Berlin, Germany Information Systems Jan Pries-Heje, Roskilde University, Denmark ICT and Society Diane Whitehouse, The Castlegate Consultancy, Malton, UK Computer Systems Technology Ricardo Reis, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems Yuko Murayama, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Artificial Intelligence Tharam Dillon, Curtin University, Bentley, Australia Human-Computer Interaction Jan Gulliksen, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Entertainment Computing Matthias Rauterberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing IFIP was founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, following the First World Computer Congress held in Paris the previous year. An umbrella organization for societies working in information processing, IFIP’s aim is two-fold: to support information processing within its member countries and to encourage technology transfer to developing nations. As its mission statement clearly states, IFIP’s mission is to be the leading, truly international, apolitical organization which encourages and assists in the development, exploitation and application of information technology for the benefit of all people. IFIP is a non-profitmaking organization, run almost solely by 2500 volunteers. It operates through a number of technical committees, which organize events and publications. IFIP’s events range from an international congress to local seminars, but the most important are: • The IFIP World Computer Congress, held every second year; • Open conferences; • Working conferences. The flagship event is the IFIP World Computer Congress, at which both invited and contributed papers are presented. Contributed papers are rigorously refereed and the rejection rate is high. As with the Congress, participation in the open conferences is open to all and papers may be invited or submitted. Again, submitted papers are stringently refereed. The working conferences are structured differently. They are usually run by a working group and attendance is small and by invitation only. Their purpose is to create an atmosphere conducive to innovation and development. Refereeing is also rigorous and papers are subjected to extensive group discussion. Publications arising from IFIP ev