Strand 1: 1600-1700 Tofflers 1st Wave

Agricultural Age: Families worked the land together because they were tied to it for economic.

1700 – 1950: Tofflers 2nd Wave Industrial Age

Families structure changed. Family were split apart to work in factories. Major focus on time.

1950 – 2010: Toffler’s Third Wave Informational Age

In 1959, the integrated circuit microscopic was created. It appeared in 1971 in large computers.

Strand 1: Toffler’s 4th Wave Communication Age

The work place calls for collaboration of others. Networking for fresh ideas to solve wicked Social Networking of this world globally.

Biotechnologies

Computer chips placed in a human brain to work faster than an average computer.

Cloning kittens to humans?

Biotechnology is on the horizon.

Strand 2: Technological Advances

1862-1869: The Union Pacific Railroad , Incorporated. The first rails laid in Omaha, Nebraska that joined the Central Pacific Railroad in Promontory, Utah.

1876: Alexander Graham Bell’s telegraphMr. Bell’s invention received a U.S. Patent for the harmonic telegraph.

1920’s Pre War Technologies

1930’s Audio Visual Technology

Charles P. Ginsburg’s practical videotape recorder, (VTR) inducted in 1990.

Google Android Tablet Laptop

Strand 3: Business and Corporate Developments

Hogan Steel Company

How companies such as Adidas thrive in any economic storm

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Strand 4: Educational Theories of Learning and Instruction

1896 – Jean Piaget’s Child development. A biologist who moved to study the development of children’s understanding through observations.

1902 – John Dewey’s Four educational writings

Dewey is a renowned and influential American philosopher of Education.

Cognitive Approach to Educationaol Technology

Strand 5 – Nature of Society and culture

Conservatives versus Democrats

Intersection of Nature and Culture

Strand 6: Cloning Humans

Biotechnology

Uncle Sam needs a bailout