history: 
a short history of the use of
computers in (u.s.) education


date event/system role(s)of computer
1960s S-R machines(e.g., Skinner, 1968) as Skinner box
1960s CAI (e.g., Suppes, 1979) as textbook
1967 LOGO (Feurzeig et al., 1967) as individual learning environment
1970 ICAI/ITS (Carbonell, 1970) as tutor
1975 SOPHIE (Brown, Burton, de Kleer, 1981) as individual learning environment and tutor
1980 Constructionism (Papert, 1980) as construction kit
1981 STEAMER (Williams, Hollan & Stevens, 1981) as simulated machinery (or laboratory)
1986 CISLE (Scardemalia & Bereiter, 1986) as classroom learning environment
1990 ILS/NWU (Schank et al., 1990) as simulated social situation
1991 Situated Learning (Lave & Wenger, 1991) as part of a learning context (participatory framework)
1994 WWW as broadcast medium
1995-
now
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning as populated place or space