Toffler’s Waves Timeline

1. Toffler’s Waves Timeline EDUC 8840 Charity Marcella Moran Please visit: http://msmomo.wikispaces.com

2. Reading Guide/Color Legend: • Strand One: Wave theory • Strand Two: Technology/Key Advances • Strand Three: Work/Business and Corporation Philosophies • Strand Four: Education/Theories of Learning and Instruction • Strand Five: Society and Culture • Strand Six: Developments in Mathematics

3. 8000 B.C. - 1650 • Agriculture Wave • Toffler's First Wave began approx 10,000 years ago - the end of the Old Stone Age (the Paleolithic) and the beginning of the New Stone Age or the Neolithic. This is approx when the Agricultural Revolution started - clearing & tilling land and domesticating animals and herding of cattle.

4. 1650 - 1950 • Industrialization wave • Waves will now be broken down by decade, beginning with 1900 ……Please continue on……

5. 1900 • Strand One: Industrialization wave • Strand Two: Plastics, sonar, model T, vacuum diode gyrocompass, helicopter, Wright Bros • Strand Three: Ford mass production and a new era in industrial history had begun • Strand Four: Thorndike’s Theory of Connectionism & Dewey’s Experimental Lab • Strand Five: Ford mass production and a new era in industrial history had begun • Strand Six: Einstein's theory of special relativity.

6. 1910 • Strand One: industrialization wave • Strand Two: Radio wave regeneration, Edison & music • Strand Three: The Progressive Era • Strand Four: In 1913, Watson published the article "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" — sometimes called "The Behaviorist Manifesto". In this article, Watson outlined the major features of his new philosophy of psychology, called "behaviorism" • Strand Five: escalation of immigration and poverty, labor & monopoly battles, work safety and child labor problems. World War I - the first 'war to end all wars' raged • Strand Six: Einstein's theory of general relativity.

7. 1920 • Strand One: industrialization wave • Strand Two: TV, Loudspeakers • Strand Three: Business Cycle Theory • Strand Four: Washburne & Parkhurst - Individualized Instruction Plans • Strand Five: This decade is known as the Roaring 20’s, more Americans live in cities than in rural areas; the first Red Scare takes place; Supreme Court holds minimum wage law unconstitutional in Adkins v. Children's Hospital. H Hoover is elected on the promise of "a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage." 1929-In October, the stock market crashes, and the Great Depression begins. • Strand Six: John von Neumann begins devising the principles of game theory and proves the minimax theorem,

8. 1930 • Strand One: industrialization theory • Strand Two: Frozen Foods, Air Mail, Scotch tape, talking books for the blind, typewriter. • Strand Three: The Great Depression & The New Deal • Strand Four: John B. Watson and Formal System of Psychology; Ralph Tyler emphasized behavioral objectives and formative education • Strand Five: Social Security enacted & War of the Worlds boradcast inflicts fear • Strand Six: CasimirKuratowski shows that the three-cottage problem has no solution

9. 1940 • Strand One: Industrialization theory • Strand Two: 1st military training film for WWII; The ENIAC • Strand Three: Electrical Engineers evolve from WWII; Gertrude Wilson gives Group Work Philosophy • Strand Four: B. F. Skinner and Operant Conditioning • Strand Five: Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care book is published • Strand Six: John von Neumann computes π to 2,037 decimal places using ENIAC,

10. 1950 • Strand One: industrialization theory • Strand Two: Computer Assisted Instruction; 1st Television broadcast in color • Strand Three: White collar jobs outnumber blue-collar jobs; the MRS. Degree • Strand Four: Bloom’s Taxonomy ; Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs • Strand Five: Civil Rights Movement; Space Race • Strand Six: H. S. M. Coxeter et al. publish the complete list of uniform polyhedron,

11. 1960 - 1990 • Information wave • Waves will continue to be broken down by decade, beginning with 1960 ……Please continue on……

12. 1960 • Information wave • Teaching Machines Used; ERIC • Identity status; feminist movement • Instructional design; Glasser’s criterion-referenced measures • Vietnam War, Woodstock • Fuzzy Mathematics founded

13. 1970 • Strand One: information theory • Strand Two: Electronic mail and optical character recognition • Strand Three: Flextime and The Peter Principle • Strand Four: Schema Theory and Matery Learning • Strand Five: First Earth Day and Roe vs. Wade • Strand Six: Four Color Theorem

14. 1980 • Strand One: information theory • Strand Two: Apple introduces Macintosh; CD-ROM players for computers • Strand Three: Reaganomics and Theory Z • Strand Four: A Nation at Risk and Gardener’s Multiple Intelligences • Strand Five: Destruction of the Berlin Wall and Exxon Valdez Oil Spill • Strand Six: the classification of finite simple groups, a collaborative work involving some hundred mathematicians and spanning thirty years, is completed

15. 1990 • Strand One: information theory • Strand Two: World Wide Web and Educational WEbquests • Strand Three: Americans with Disabilities Act and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell • Strand Four: Outcome-based education and Constructivist Theory • Strand Five: Cloning enters medical field; development of the World Wide Web • Strand Six: YasumasaKanada, David Bailey, Jonathan Borwein, and Peter Borwein use iterative modular equation approximations to elliptic integrals and a NEC SX-2 supercomputer to compute π to 134 million decimal places

16. 2000 – Present • communication wave ……Please continue on……

17. 2000s • Strand One: communication theory • Strand Two: SMART boards; Online Social Networks • Strand Three: Ethical Consumerism; Pareto’s Principle • Strand Four: No Child Left Behind • Strand Five: Terrorism in the U.S.: (9-11) Taliban terrorists bring down Twin Towers and assault the Pentagon. • Barack Obama--44th president of the US; 1st African-American. • Strand Six: the Clay Mathematics Institute proposes the seven Millennium Prize Problems of unsolved important classic mathematical questions.