It was the 1979–1980 school year, and across the state of Texas, some new technology began appearing by ones and twos in classrooms: personal, desktop computers. Whether they were Commodore 64’s or Apple IIe’s, they were new territory to teachers and leaders who had lots of questions and few answers.
There Was a Need
许多教育者室内外很感兴趣ting, or already involved in utilizing the new computers that had started to appear on campuses. Several of these educators decided they needed to take some instruction in programming as that was one of the main ways to interact with a computer at that time. So they enrolled in a night course at North Texas State University, taught by Dr. James L. Poirot.
Two of these educators, Vicki Smith and Diana Radspinner, stayed after class one night and initiated the thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way to share ideas and network information among the teachers in the state using or interested in technology?” Dr. Poirot responded that he would be willing to organize a meeting to discuss this if they were willing to do a “little” paperwork. The paperwork soon became an immense undertaking as these two educators from Dallas ISD mailed out fliers to other educators, sketched out a logo (see below), and created an organizational name.
1980年5月3日,举行了一次组织会议,并有来自全州各地的135名教育工作者参加。参加会议的人加入了新的德克萨斯计算机教育协会。那是我们的开始。几个月后,即1980年10月4日,TCEA在北德克萨斯州立大学举行了第一次官方会议。通过了宪法,并选举了第一董事会。之后,第一届新闻通讯发表了,该组织在1981年夏季在丹顿举行的国家教育计算会议(现称ISTE)上正式展出了其第一个正式的展位,桌子和讲义。
TCEA Grew Quickly
从周六初会议开始,鼓励教育工作者带上自己的软盘(和磁盘档),并制作MECC软件的法律副本,以在其教室中使用,以举行会议,例如“通过计算机使用改善教育的计划”和“单词”处理器和老师”为了学习新的通信系统宗旨,TCEA迅速成为如何最好地使用技术学习学习的首选专家。快进40年,TCEA仍然是全球34,000多名教育工作者的资源。
That growth is directly attributable to two groups of individuals. The first group is composed of all of the absolutely amazing leaders we have had over those 40 years. From our founding father, Dr. Jim Poirot, through to the current board of directors, from the SIG leaders to the Champions, dedicated educators have willingly served countless hours to provide extensive planning, professional development, and resources to anyone interested in educational technology. They’ve helped TCEA grow from doing just one professional learning event to an organization that provides more than 200 opportunities to grow in a wide variety of formats each year.
我们的成员是第二个帮助TCEA成长太多的小组,我们甚至无法存在。对于那些参加我们活动的人,分享我们的使命和愿景的人,向社区中回答问题的人,我们感谢您。我们感谢那些参加编程比赛并培训学生参加机器人活动的人。我们感谢计划和实施技术计划的CTO和技术主管。我们感谢网络人和技术人员保持一切联系和工作的技术人员以及经常充当前线ED技术专家的图书馆媒体专家。我们赞扬C&I员工,校园以及地区领导者,他们帮助每个人将技术融入学习。我们特别感谢所有使用技术的前线老师每天都会为学生带来改变。你们所有人在帮助TCEA的成长和繁荣并取得如此多的成就方面发挥了重要作用。
Where TCEA Is Headed
While none of us can predict the future with 100% accuracy, I think we all can agree that the importance of technology for learning can only increase. The recent crisis with remote teaching and learning is just one indicator of the need for continued development in the use of technologies today and those coming tomorrow. And TCEA will be right there with all of you as that future comes closer.
生日快乐,TCEA!
The first 40 years were unbelievable. I can’t wait to see what the next 40 have in store for us. Tremendous thanks go to each and every one of you who has been a part of our journey thus far. What can’t we accomplish together????