The Computer Chronicles - Computers in Education (1983)

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[@OmegaWolf747]

Ah! The old Apple IIe. I used one every day in tenth grade. Was also introduced to IBM PS/2 286s on a LAN in the same grade. Looking back, I think that's what got me hooked on computers and tech.

[@ericn9vjg]

It's fun to look up the guests on the internet to see what they are doing today.

[@argebarse]

RIP Gary Kildall, got into a fight with bikers and died.

[@infinitecanadian]

Or the companies.

[@infinitecanadian]

@@argebarse That is one account. He could have just fallen.

[@ritsukasa]

Im afraid of doing that because they could be dead

[@haroldfarthington7492]

what happened to LOGO guy

[@MrWhtgst]

I am educating myself with my home terminal.

[@gustavogoncalves3083]

Incredible, what a flashback... my first experience with computers it was with an Apple running Logo, in 1992, just like in this show. I remember I was very anxious to wait every week for those classes. Nice video!

[@elgeneralxx]

did you watch Phil Donahue in 1992🏦🏨

[@marctronixx]

the computer stu used at the top of the show is the same exact ones we had in junior high. color CRTs too! two floppy disk drives !! myself and another cat knew more about the computers than the teacher did. she would often ask us in our class to show how to make a program in BASIC.

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

“Shut up, algebroid.”

[@anonUK]

In 1983, it was all Apple IIs in American schools and BBC B's in the UK.

[@michaelolz]

I'd actually like to play Algebra Arcade right now! What an amazing game period, let alone a great teaching tool!

[@dhansel4835]

Talking about replacing teachers.... I have a cousin that substitutes in a school district, Alamo Heights. He told me that when he goes into a classroom there are computer terminals at each desk. The students put their headsets on and start that day of watching a teacher from... say Chicago. He tells me if a student needs help he will step in and help the kids understand or figure out the problem. He says the kids in his school are highly motivated in their learning ability. He says they like to be challenged so they will learn at their own pace.

[@johneygd]

It blows my mind that even back in the day despites those computers were primitive,many already feared that computers will replace teachers and dehumanize stuff. Well their fearness become partialy true because nowaday, compluters replaced school books and papers for the most part in class rooms. ,teachers will be alway's needed but it will be reduced,many sectors has been already dehumanized and more about to come.

[@glenyoung1809]

2023: ChatGPT and AI, 40 years after these episodes, learning is already changing rapidly with tools such as Grammerly and the new AI enabled apps appearing everywhere. Also you can guide and instruct GPT to write Python code without any knowledge of the language yourself. I wonder if any of these people are still around, those kids in the video are now mid 40s at least. Time sure files.

[@wohlhabendermanager]

Algebra Arcade. I somehow expected Stewart to do "what's called a pro-gamer move" there...

[@mikemurphy8714]

Two dudes at the end bout to throw down.

[@wallacelang1374]

I have various programming languages on both my Atari 800XL and my Pentium PC, which includes both Basic as well as Logo. I was intending on adding Pascal, Pilot, Fortran and Forth as other languages on both of my computers. Whether I am using DOS on my Atari or Windows on my PC I am able to save the programs that I write on my computer systems.

[@Trusteft]

LOL LOGO. I did LOGO (and Basic and a couple more) back in the early-mid 80s. I remember exactly NOTHING about it lol.

[@Trusteft]

@@ritsukasa Sounds good too lol.

[@anadragos8340]

✨Wow I did logo in school. But in the 90s and it was a different version of it. But it did things like this. Lol😜✨

[@Schiff1926]

The dude showing Logo has some seriously thick eyeglasses.

[@zzzxtreme]

made by leica, it can provide nice bokeh at F1.8

[@kz1000ps]

Haha photographer joke FTW

[@wohlhabendermanager]

@Trevor Hug Computer technology isn't the only field that made progress over the last 37 years: urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/digital-media-and-broadcast-veteran-glenn-kleiman-named-radio-milwaukee-executive-director/

[@melmaciandissenter2324]

@@zzzxtreme You're laughing, but my glasses are actually made by Zeiss.

[@infinitecanadian]

A PC 5150! Those are awesome.

[@CaptchaNeon]

Stewart was so moody back then, he seemed really intolerant of everything. As far as the teacher of the logic class, his computer tutorial made me feel like a deer in the headlights. I lost half of my brain cells listening to that. Wow that weird logic teacher made a hell of a prediction of people being able to do entire courses without going to a campus.

[@FernandoDeLeon]

here from the future....in the 2020s students really benefited from doing their schooling from home..so he predicted correctly

[@ryanfroula6479]

What was the terminal in the first half?

[@CMDRScotty]

Is it just me or does his computer look like the ones in Fall Out?

[@altaccount8749]

Coronavirus really showed them the power of computer

[@richardgray8593]

The hair on that host guy creeps me out.

[@myplane150]

The guy with the weird hair....i just wanna touch it but I'm afraid it will break.

[@thotsi]

dubya

[@calvinsaxon5822]

"As far as any real data (on how computers have improved education), we don't have any." "We FEEL like they've made a difference." And that's how computers made their way into every classroom. On the Bush doctrine...the gut.

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

20:34 Are there antisocial consequences to coupling kids with computers rather than flesh-and-blood teachers? Go back in time to this conversation and try to explain to those present that in 2020, all teaching in America will be by teachers communicating to students via computers because of a pandemic that prevents anyone from gathering in person.

[@lindaoffenbach]

And in the meantime too many kids today are seriously underdeveloping their communication skills, specially not understanding non-verbal nuances at all, and are profusely underdeveloping their social cognivity. Playful imagination as well is extremely underdeveloped. Most worrying is that kids now very often feel a bond with their device instead of with a human. Kids get everything pre-packaged and are constantly monitored on top. All is self-focus on self-goals, self-targets by the most efficient (machine) way... That IS dehumanising to the extreme. New generation kids have become true little monsters... IMHO. Parents have complained here in Germany that they and their kids want to interact the normal social way, very much so (!)