Evolution of Educational Technology TimeLine Project

1. Evolution of Educational TechnologyTimeLine Project Sharyn L Warren EDUC 8840

2. Work the Land Factory Work Collaboration Genetic Engineering Bureaucracies Manual Labor Computers Tissue Culture Power Driven Machinery Foot Travel Mobile Technologies Pharmaceutical Products Motorized Vehicles Home School Internet Space/Ocean Exploration Air Travel Few Resources Digital Kids School (grouped by age/grade) References

3. Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture. The first automobile electrical ignition system. The first traffic signal. The photocopier invented. Z3, the first computer controlled by software. Fortran computer language invented. The first computer mouse invented. The word processor is invented. The IBM – PC is invented. The World Wide Web (www) is introduced. iPod invented under project code name Dulcimer. The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission. The short wave radio was invented. Complete electronic TV system. The electron microscope invented. The first electronic digital computer. Computer modem invented. Random Access Memory (RAM) introduced. The cell phone is invented. Windows programs by Microsoft is introduced. WebTV is invented. Toyota’s Hybrid car. References Bureau of Census is established. Panama Canal opens. Stock Market crash. First commercial television broadcast. 40- hour work week begins in industry as a result of Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Wang Laboratories founded. Harvard Business School allows women MBA students. U.S. Clean Air Act. CNN 24- hour news channel. U.S. Telephone Consumers Act. Wal-Mart is the largest company by revenue and the largest private employer in the world. GE opened first industrial research and development lab. Introduction of paper. Emergence of large, diversified, multi-divisional firms. Marketing as an integrated subject of business activity was beginning to evolve. Office of Production Management is created. Disneyland opens. Zip codes started in the U.S. Internet Configuration Control Board (ICCB) established. AT&T forced to break up. Pizza Hut sells pizzas over the Internet. Collapse of the Dot.com. References Edward Lee Thorndike – Instrumental Learning “The Law of Effect.” Visual Instruction – Visual Education. Jean Piaget – Stage Theory of Cognitive Development B.F. Skinner – Operant Conditioning Visual Aids for War Training. Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning. Individualization Prescribed Instruction (IPI). Robert Glaser – Criterion – Referenced Test. Benjamin bloom – Mastery Learning. Distance Learning. Self-Directed Learning. Alfred Binet – Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale (IQ Test). Wolfgang Kohler – Gestalt Theory. Frankfurt School – Institute of Social Research. E. Guthrie – Contiguity Theory. Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI). Albert Bandura – Social Learning Theory. Lev Vygotsky – Social Development Theory. Madeline Hunter – Mastery Teaching. John Bransford – Anchored Instruction. George Siemens, Stephen Downes – Connectivism Theory. References

4. First Nobel Prizes Awarded. Women Granted the Right to Vote. Harlem Renaissance Begins. Prohibition Ends in U.S. Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor. DNA Discovered. Martin Luther King, Jr. Makes “I Have a Dream” Speech. Watergate Scandal Begins. First Woman Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. World Trade Center Bombed. Disney has first black princess – Tiana. Influenza Epidemic. First Olympic Games. The Great Depression. Alcoholics Anonymous Founded. Jackie Robinson – First Black Player in Major League Baseball. Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S. First Super Bowl. First Test Tube Baby. New Plague Identified as Aids. Scientist Clone Sheep. U.S. elected first African American President – Barack Obama. References Booker T. Washington is the first African American to dine at White House Theodore Roosevelt. Garret Morgan patents gas mask – later adopted by the U.S. Army. William Leo Hansberry teaches the first course in African civilization Howard University. The Michigan Chronicle is founded in Detroit by Louis E. Martin. Frederick Douglass Patterson establishes the United Negro College Fund. Dr. Ralph Bunch wins Nobel Peace Price. San Francisco State University becomes the first four-year college to establish a black studies department. Shirley Chishom first woman to run for Democratic presidential nomination. Martin Luther King holiday is celebrated as National Holiday. Carol Moseley Braun – first African American Woman elected to U.S. Senate. Colin Powell – Secretary of State. Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller is the nation’s first black psychiatrist. Claude A. Barnett – Associated Negro Press. Garrett T. Morgan patents the traffic signal. Jesse Owens wins four Gold Medals. Adam Clayton Powell elected to U.S. House of Representatives. Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat on bus. Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court. Carter Woodson – establishes Black History Month. Colin Powell – Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff. Million Man March on Washington, D.C. Michael Steele – Chairman Republican National Committee. References