BOOK REVIEW

摘要

Occasioned by the crash of the dot com market in early 2000, the period of overly optimistic expectation of Information and Communication technologies (ICTs) by society has also ended. All sectors of production, consumption, and dissemination of technologies have undergone (or are undergoing) a change process. Some of these changes have been inconsequential, while others have been far deeper reaching. The education sector too, has undertaken a similar introspective process which aims to understand how, as a discipline it has evolved to its current state. In keeping with this, in 2004, the inaugural conference on the History of Computing in Education (HCE1) was held in Toulouse, France. Scholars from four continents presented papers covering a broad spectrum of issues on the topics of history of (computing in education) as well as (history of computing) in education. The former topic deals with the time period when computing technology was used in and by education while the latter covers a much longer period which deals with the history of computing and the educational nature of that.