Liza Loop papers Box 3 (cont)
Talking to teenagers about your career - info about gathering info on careers, salaries on the back. Salary information on the other side. --> career access as empowerment.
"Examining sexist attitudes and expectations of teachers" - handout with cartoon of a pre-victorian(?) female school teacher tending to children
- academic performance expectations, classroom/school organization, behavior expectation, opportunities for extracurriculars
- WE ARE WHAT WE ARE EXPECTED TO BE at bottom of handout
- math/science resource center (math sci network) out of mills college
What is history of this math sci network? Who was in it? Teri Perl?
Handout on "Mathematics and Employment" with salary information.
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Computertown Events: Two Profiles
inside look o f planning and conducting a computertown event (peninsula school learning faire, "Computer Business Night")
Look at these papers to understand what priorities they had, what priorities were formally stated and what might not have made it into the article (okay to talk about gender insterests in *this* space? a quick skim doesn't have gender showing up as a unit of analysis)
Inside that folded up printout, document "What is a computer town anyways? A CT is any public access computer literacy project. It is a group individuals, adults and children helping each other to become informed citizens of todays information age. It is kids developing an intuitive understanding of comp tech through recreational games, educational simul, and programming of microcomputers. It is adults teaching their neighbors word processing and computer-absed accting. CT is "informal education" and it is to provide the opportunity for everyone in town to become "Comptuer Literate".
"Why do we need ComputerTowns? ...'We need a wide acceptance and familirity with computers among the pop at large. CT Provides ... non-threatening and fun way of bring about. In future children thinking in ways we can't envision now. Comp rpoviding w/intellectual tool...
1st CT in 1978 - Bob Albrecht and Ramon Zamora (elementary computer programming book authors) brough comps to public places (pizza parlors, bookstores, parks, pub library) to observe ordinary first time users. Donated computers and game tapes to Menlo Park library. Dream of "making Menlo Park, California the first completely "computer literate" community. How is this like a commune mindset? Not really. Focused on changing at grassroots rather than moving away from it all. But this is proabbly 1981 document. I'll need to establish a link between PCC and counterculture.
"Computers have travleled to interest study groups, pizza parlor, ghetto, senior centers, and special education schools. (Handwritten note in red: "economically disadvantaged areas" rather than ghetto...when did political correctness start to take off?)--> this seems like an awareness of marginalized groups that is not typical of the counterculture.
"CT might be an organization or just a feeling shared by indep ppl and groups. Someone sets up a computer where people can touch it, operate it themselves and ask questions and CT is there.
who was this document meant for? what was it published into?
People's Computer Company: Vol 1 Issue 1, October 1972
SO PCC predated computer town. Cool, interesting. See development of ideas over time.
Big bold letters at bottom of front page: "This is page one"
"We did this issue: Bob Albrecht, Mary Jo Albrecht, Jerry Brown, Le Roy Finkel. Contributors: Marc LeBrun (art), Jane Wood (art), Tom Albrecht (art)"
on back:
"Computers are mostly used against people instead of for people, used to control people instead of to free them / time to change all that / we need a...
ship sailing into sunset, with People's Computer Company shining out of sun
cartoon of picketers on the back, men, women, children, four visibly black faces, rest white
picket signs: "NO MORE FORTRAN" "P.C.C. LIVES" "BASIC IS THE PEOPLE'S LANGUAGE" "USE COMPUTERS FOR PEOPLE, NOT AGAINST THEM!"
"help us write the next issue...and the next issue...and the next issue and...does your school, group or org have a comp? do you have a comp? do you like your comp? (do you like the comp manuf?) how do you build a cheap tape winder? do you have any good game playing programs or simulations (in BASIC)? what do you want? would you like to do one or more pages of photo-ready copy for a future issue? would you or your group like to edit and produce a complete issue?" --> reminds me of do it yourself of whole earth cataglog, but WEC does not seem as much into collaborative (or co-)creation
They have a people's comptuer center too.
p.2 - (building?) blocks, a few stacked on others, with pictures on the faces of 4 of them (boy using comp, man using comp/cash register in cartoon, long haired person using comp, columbia's LP "the Firesign Theatre"'s "I think we're all bozos on this bus"
One clearly female figure (naked with breasts, except for flimsy toga draped on body), and another similar figure but only visible from the back looks like theyy're dancing on the blocks and stretching or doing ballet or something.
review of publication "Computers and automation" --> "Scientific American of computer-oriented press...It's a maagazine with a conscience...heavy on social comment and humanistic view of computers. " featured are four issues -- one has a computer generated wirefrrame looking thing on the cover, one a classroom with black students -- black women in the firefront (afro hair...is that significant during the time as a marker of a political community?), man using computer with lightpen and some sort of ear piece (he has chops....again, what does that hairstyle usually signify at the time?), girl in classroom (board with scawlings in background) and she seems to be doing something labby
doesn't seem to be authorship associated with articles
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