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1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 3 <html><head><link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><meta name="exporter-version" content="Evernote Mac 7.9 (457563)"/><meta name="created" content="2018-05-01 08:05:54 +0000"/><meta name="source" content="desktop.mac"/><meta name="updated" content="2018-05-30 18:28:59 +0000"/><title>Lecture 5</title></head><body><div>Silicon Valley</div><ul><li><div>computer part of democratic movement, time sharing facilities</div></li><li><div>developments in electro, like wristwatches</div></li><li><div>Whole Earth Catalog, 2001 A Space Odyssey</div></li><li><div>Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib (“understand computers now” mantra)</div></li><li><div>dream machines, people started <span style="font-style: italic;">wanting </span>computers</div></li></ul><div><br/></div><div>EU valleys</div><ul><li><div>academics & high tech companies have time sharing facilities</div></li><li><div>utopian city planning (e.g. Sophia-Antipolis) didn’t work much</div></li><li><div>Twente polytechnic in Enschede — “let’s have a valley of our own"</div></li><li><div>but no interest from youth Hippie movement, not like in the US where they wanted to take computers from the government and into their own hands</div></li><li><div>the thing is, in the US it just emerged, in the EU they were trying to force it</div></li></ul><div><br/></div><div>Appropriating computers</div><ul><li><div>Altair 8800 was the machine that everyone wanted, it was simple with lights as output</div></li><li><div>Homebrew computer club in the US (1975), exchanged information and programs, shared computer time</div></li><li><div>no academic setting for Information Science in NL</div></li><li><div>others used computers for: mining, railroad, tax office, bank, insurance</div></li><li><div>Hobby Computer Club, 1977, NL</div></li><ul><li><div>activities for members, shared knowledge and software</div></li><li><div>did not want to pay for software, hacked and produced their own</div></li><li><div>programs in newsletters, radio broadcasting</div></li><li><div>no political agenda, but identity</div></li><li><div>you had to know your shit to join</div></li><li><div>Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1982)</div></li></ul><li><div>VisiCalc, Teleac TV for programming courses, SSAA study group for automating administration</div></li><li><div>Squatter movement, 1980s</div></li><ul><li><div>started in Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam</div></li><li><div>politically active</div></li><li><div>taking from American hippie movement</div></li></ul></ul><ul><li><div>computers in education — curriculum psychology, educational process</div></li><ul><li><div>two problems: how to educate such a high amount, how to make them think</div></li><li><div>academics wanted to teach students how to program</div></li><li><div>binary arithmetic, flowcharts</div></li><li><div>programming École, BASIC</div></li><li><div>learning to do exercises vs learning to think</div></li><li><div>Skinner machine</div></li><li><div>programmed instruction (non-linear book, custom pace, immediate feedback on answers)</div></li><li><div>influenced the philosophy around learning</div></li></ul></ul><div><br/></div></body></html>