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Back Issues

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	'''All back issues are available free.''' Here is a list of back issues with very short descriptions of content.'''		'''All back issues are available free.''' Here is a list of back issues with very short descriptions of content.'''

-	* [http://i-a-e.org/newsletters/IAE-Newsletter-2012-87.html IAE Newsletter - Issue 87, April, 2012.] How Educational Neuroscience Will Contribute to 21st Century Education.	+	* [http://i-a-e.org/newsletters/IAE-Newsletter-2012-89.html IAE Newsletter - Issue 89, May, 2012.] Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: Thinking, Fast and Slow.
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		+	* [http://i-a-e.org/newsletters/IAE-Newsletter-2012-88.html IAE Newsletter - Issue 88, April, 2012.] Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: Surprise: It Makes Us Who We Are.
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		+	* [http://i-a-e.org/newsletters/IAE-Newsletter-2012-87.html IAE Newsletter - Issue 87, April, 2012.] Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: How Educational Neuroscience Will Contribute to 21st Century Education.

	* [http://i-a-e.org/newsletters/IAE-Newsletter-2012-86.html IAE Newsletter - Issue 86, March, 2012.] Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: The Issues of Consciousness and Free Will - Part 2.		* [http://i-a-e.org/newsletters/IAE-Newsletter-2012-86.html IAE Newsletter - Issue 86, March, 2012.] Creating an Appropriate 21st Century Education: The Issues of Consciousness and Free Will - Part 2.

Ann Lathrop

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Up Close and Personal

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	This is a work in Progress. Help from volunteers will be greatly appreciated.		This is a work in Progress. Help from volunteers will be greatly appreciated.
		+	==From Bobby Goodson and Sandy Wagner==
		+	The following short article written by Bobby Goodson and Sandy Wagner is from a 1984 issue of the California Computer Using educators (CUE) Newsletter.

-	~~==Instructions to Authors and Editors==~~	+	'''<Center>Who Is Ann Lathrop? </Center>'''
-	Here is a rough outline for a Pioneer page. As you create or add to this page, please make appropriate use of main headings (surrounded by == on each side) sub headings (surrounded by === on each side) and, if you feel it to be appropriate, sub sub headings (surrounded by ==== on each side).	+

-	~~Note that if~~ a ~~page has already been created for a person~~, ~~but little has been added to~~ the ~~page, then probably a few section titles have been entered to get the page started~~. As the ~~page is fleshed out, this set~~ of ~~directions can~~ be ~~deleted.~~	+	:: When someone asks, “What’s a SoftSwap?” you can explain about public domain, teacher contributed software and about sharing successful classroom computer lessons. But that really doesn’t tell the story. It is really the vision of someone who saw a need and believed it could be filled!

-	1. ~~General demographic types of information such as birth date~~ and ~~place, education, employment~~, and ~~so on~~.	+	:: Anyone who really understood how hard it was to work with software for 3 or 4 different machines and duplicate disks (consistently) wouldn’t have seriously considered trying to solve the problem. But Ann Lathrop is a librarian! She met with the CUE Board in January, 1980 and proposed a public domain software exchange called SoftSwap. It is a credit to her vision and organizational ability that the procedures established at that time for acquiring, refining and distributing program for SoftSwap have changed very little as it has grown. And how it has grown! Sixty-eight disks created for 6 machines (and more announced in this newsletter!) and a total of 12,000 disks mailed from the San Mateo Microcomputer Center.

-	2. ~~Setting the scene. This might go all the way back~~ to ~~the pioneer's childhood. Try~~ to ~~capture~~ the ~~essence of how~~ the ~~world~~ was ~~before the pioneer began to do his or her pioneering work~~. ~~Pay particular attention~~ to ~~the levels of Information~~ and ~~Communication Technology~~, and ~~their~~ use ~~in education, at the time~~.	+	:: But Ann didn’t stop there. There was a need to have a place to look at software, public domain and commercial, and the Microcomputer Center in the San Mateo County Office (Redwood City, CA) was born. There was a need to find a way to catalog and store software, consistent with other media, and use it creatively—and a book was born. There was a need to search for software and have critical reviews available on that software—and a journal was born.

-	~~3. Major pioneering efforts and contributions. Try~~ to ~~capture~~ the ~~essence of~~ the ~~pioneer's legacy contributions to~~ the ~~field~~ of ~~ICT in education. Be factual. Provide references if possible~~.	+	:: There was a need to share software ideas throughout the state, and Ann lingered over lunch in Sacramento in 1982 and designed the California State Software Clearinghouse funded by the California State Department of Education, which she now directs out of the San Mateo County Office.

-	~~4. Up close~~ and ~~personal stories about the pioneer~~. ~~These can be contributed by many different authors. Try to flesh out~~ the ~~pioneer as a person and his~~ or ~~her contributions as part of~~ the ~~overall human endeavor of developing~~ the ~~field of ICT in education~~.	+	:: And soon you will see the 1984 edition of the Educational Software Preview Guide, compiled and edited under Ann’s direction. It represents the combined evaluations from 18 states currently evaluating educational software at the state or county level. Experts from each evaluation center met at the California State Software Clearinghouse for four days to create the Guide.

-	~~5. Autobiographic materials written by the pioneer in the past and/or written especially for this IAE-pedia document.~~	+	:: Ann, our hats are off to you—you have made a difference

-	~~6. Interview. If the pioneer is not deceased, try to gather interview information via face to face meeting, phone, or email. Here are three sample interview questions:~~	+	==Up Close and Personal==
		+	'''<Center>Comment by Dave Moursund</Center>'''

-	~~::Q. Looking back over your pioneering activities, which do you feel best about? What is your legacy?~~	+	In the early 1980s when Ann Lathrop entered my doctorate program, she was a well-established professional and leader in librarianship. Her professional growth in the computer-in-education aspects of librarianship during the time she was in my doctoral program is truly amazing.
-	~~::Q. Drawing upon your years of experience and accumulated wisdom, what do you think are some of~~ the ~~very best ways to improve our current informal and formal educational systems?~~	+
-	~~::Q. What else do you want to say to today's students, teachers, parents, and other people?~~	+
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-	~~7. References. This includes references to sources of information about the pioneer as well as references to some of the published works or and other activities of the Pioneer.~~	+
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-	~~8. Author or Authors. You are encouraged to include your name as the initial author of the document.~~	+
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-	~~9. Finally, at the very bottom of the page you are creating, on a line all by itself and in double square brackets, enter the text: Category: Pioneer~~	+
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-	~~==Up Close and Personal==~~	+
-	~~Comment by Dave Moursund. At the time~~ Ann Lathrop entered my doctorate program, she ~~had already made huge contributions to~~ the ~~field~~ of ~~computers~~ in ~~education~~.	+

-	The University of Oregon doctorate computer in education doctorate program at that time required a significant amount of computer science coursework and a variety of research methods courses, such as statistics courses. Most of the students entering the program had a math background. Ann's previous education included math education that ended in high school, and she had only a modest interest in computer science. She was interested in the "information science" part of the overall field of Computers and ~~Informatoin~~ Science. Her interests and points of view broadened my perspectives!	+	The University of Oregon doctorate computer in education doctorate program at that time required a significant amount of computer science coursework and a variety of research methods courses, such as statistics courses. Most of the students entering the program had a math background. Ann's previous education included math education that ended in high school, and she had only a modest interest in computer science. She was interested in the "information science" part of the overall field of Computers and Information Science. Her interests and points of view broadened my perspectives and made a significant contribution to improving the program.

-	I was a pleasure to have Ann as a doctoral student and to follow her career after ~~the~~ degree. ~~She eventually~~ became a professor at California State University, Long Beach.	+	It was a pleasure to have Ann as a doctoral student and to follow her career after her degree. After leaving Oregon she became a professor at California State University, Long Beach.

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		+	The initial version of this page was created by David Moursund.


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