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Education Pioneers Computing Then Computing Now Freedom LO*OP
 * Liza Loop
 * o 1970’s student @ Sonoma State
 * o Was able to access time shared information at the other end of the state
 * o One of the last remaining pioneers of computing education
 * Sy vs AS
 * The Experience
 * o Since the whole notion of computing was relatively new, individuals like Liza had to depend on individuals around her to help work out problems and learn from each other
 * Formal and Informal Education
 * o The use of common lecture by a teacher coupled with the informal form of education of learning and computing on ones own, helping deductive reasoning, critical thinking, and problem solving skills was prominent in the 1970’s
 * The Experience
 * o At the click of a button, we can have the answer at our finger tips
 * o With the modern generation, computers and the internet are an integral part of todays world, we wouldn’t be able to operate without it
 * § Question to the class: “If I gave you a street address who would be able to find there way using a Thomas guide and not Google Maps?”
 * Formal OR Informal Education
 * o Good teachers today are able to use Formal and Informal Education to help students grow in their learning with professor and student
 * o However, some teachers are not able to use both Formal and Informal
 * § Rather they lean towards heavy lecturing (Formal)
 * “We have all had that teacher that drones on for countless hours in your 8AM class”
 * § Or the computing only (Informal)
 * “The teacher that you do not even have to show up to class because everything is online”
 * o A balance is necessary
 * Liza Quote
 * o Being able to compute helps individuals learn many things on their own
 * o Information that used to be difficult to find can be accessed from anywhere in the world
 * Founding
 * o To help those who did not know how, or were unable to compute learn for the first time
 * o 1975
 * Non Profit
 * o Set up like Liza’s first Sonoma state class with individuals working out problems with each other through Formal and Informal education with Staff members
 * Incorporated Social Diversity
 * o To make sure everyone had a chance so everyone could become successful

The Importance of LO*OP Takeaways
 * HCLE
 * o Accessed online
 * Collected over 10,000 print artifacts
 * o Computing in education, include, books, magazines, scholarly articles, manuals, old computers, and much more from the 1960’s to 1990’s
 * The Early Pioneers
 * o The importance of what they did years before even the internet came into being
 * o The power of computing and how we owe them all a great of gratitude for helping educators everywhere