DANA SIAU EDUC 7100-2 EVOLUTION OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TIME LINE ASSIGNMENT The Ages of Technology

DANA SIAUEDUC 7100-2

EVOLUTION OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGYTIME LINE ASSIGNMENT

The Ages of Technology

Toffler’s Three Waves Timeline

8000 B.C. – Agricultural Age

1700 – Clash of the

Agricultural Age &

Industrial Age

1800 – Industrial Age

1955- Shift from the

Industrial Age to the

Information Age

It is my belief that we have not entered a 4th wave. I believe that the communication age is only an

advanced extension of the information age, and that our next

wave will be a biotechnological age.

Agricultural Age

Characterized by…

•The extended family•Horse and Buggy as means of transportation•Farming as main source of food and income•Homeschooling geared towards family roles (child rearing, family business, etc.)

Industrial Age

Characterized by…

•The transition to the nuclear family•Specialization in factories•Mass production of products via assembly lines•Railroads, cars, and planes as means of transportation•Renewable energy sources•Introduction of markets for trade of products•Mass schooling becomes grouped by age and gender

Information Age

Characterized by…

•Non-renewable energy sources•Large corporations •cyberspace communications (cell phones, computers, etc.)•One-parent & Two working parents household•Digital natives in education•Demassification of production

1900-1910

Technological Innovations Business/Corporate Education

•Alexander F. Victor invents the Animatograph

•The world’s first billion dollar corporation-U.S. Steel is established•Henry Ford mass manufactures model T Fords

•Montessori establishes first Children’s House•Visual education movement begins in schools

Nature of Society & Culture Communication

•Researchers discover how to manufacture margarine

1900-Inventin of the radiotelephone (telephone signal by radio waves instead of air waves)

1910-1920


•The Beginning of the Visual instruction Movement•Educational film companies begin to establish themselves•Thomas Edison produces first set of films for classroom showings


1920-1930


•1925-Scottish inventors had their first successful TV transmissions•1922-Radios for home use

•First book written describing methodology for the film in the classroom•First courses established for teachers concerning use of educational film


•Invention of the car radio-George Frost installs a portable radio into a Ford Model T•Beginning of the communication movement

1930-1940


•1931-Teleprinters, special typewriters that send messages across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, was invented•1931- Metal detector invented•1937-Alan Turing builds the first digital computer

•Europeans politically control 85% of the land on Earth


•Cryogenics•Great Depression hits America

•1938-Ballpoint Pen invented•First regular television program transmitted

1940-1950


1946-J.G. Brainerd and others built the first electronic computer1947-poloaroid camera invented

•US Possessed 72% of the world’s gold reserve•Global economy is in disarray (foreign trade is at it’s lowest since 1913)

•Decline of the Visual Instruction Movement to be replaced by audiovisual communications


•1942-Penicillin manufactured

1950-1960


•Floppy disk invented•Bell Laboratories builds the first speech-recognition machine that recognizes voice

•American Montessori Society founded•The beginning of the programmed instruction movement


•Number of radio stations in the U.S. begin to climb 2,336-5,359•Invention of the Color Television

1960-1970


1964-Word processor invented •Decline of the programmed instruction movement


•Green Revolution begins•1967-First human heart transplant

•U.S. postal service at it’s highest peak of communication•Invention of the portable radiotelephone

1970-1980


•1975-Invetntion of the desktop computer•1971-Invention of the portable electronic calculator

•Innovation of “flextime”-an arrangement that permits workers to choose their own hours


•1971-First space station•Genetic Engineering•Shift from “child-centered” to “adult-centered homes

•Television viewing begins to decline•1977-An increase in the usage of CB radio•Percentage of Americans reading newspaper begins to fall & U.S. Newspapers begin to loose circulation of papers

1980-1990


•1988-Invention of the fax machine•Compact discs (CD) and CD-ROM invented


•1988-Genetic fingerprinting•1984- “eye printing,” a method using the image of the retina to identify people, was invented

•1983 Garth A. Clowes invents the first vocal control telephone•1984-Invention of the pocket television

1990-2000


1990-Jeff Hawkins invents the Gridpad, a machine with no keyboard, but has a writing pad that recognizes characters, functions, and shapes


•1990-Invention of the Interactive TV & the laserdiscs

2000-2010



References

Dede, C. (2010). The Next Wave, Part 2. Laureate Education, Inc.

Giscard d’Estain, Valerie-Anne & Young, Mark. (1993). Inventions and Discoveries 1993: New York, New York: Facts On File, Inc.

Saettler, P. (2004). The Evolution of American Educational Technology. Greenwich, Ct: Information Age Publishing.

Taylor, Ron. (1991). Journey Through Inventions. New York, NY: Smithmark Publishers Inc.

Thornburg, D. (2010). The Next Wave, Part 1, Laureate Education, Inc.

Toffler, Alvin. (1980). The Third Wave. New York, New York: Bantam.

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