Evolution of Educational
Technology
Yolanda Thompkins
Timeline key
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Strand 1: Toffler’s Wave Theory
Strand 2: Technology
Strand 3: Work
Strand 4: Education
Strand 5: Society and Culture
Strand 6: Women Issues
1800bc-1900
Agricultural Wave 1800 bc-1750
Agricultural wave began at the end of the Stone
Age. People of that time began clear land and
planting large gardens that allowed them to land
off the land. As a result hunting and gathering
groups began to live a less nomadic lifestyle.
Industrial Wave1750-1950
Industrial wave took approximately two hundred
years to complete. During this time period great
changes were made to the way of life for the vast
majority of people of earth. Although there were
period of great depression, people began more
wealthy and products were mass produced.
Charles Seeberger
redesigned Jesse Reno's
escalator and invented the
modern escalator.
http://inventors.about.com/li
brary/inventors/blescalator.
htm
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Albert Einstein published
the Theory of Relativity and
made famous the equation,
E = mc2.
http://www.allaboutscience.
org/theory-of-relativity.htm
1901-1910
In Joliet, Illinois, the first public
community college in the U.S. is opened.
It is names the Joliet Junior College.
http://www.jjc.edu/about/collegeinfo/Pages/history.aspx
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Mary Mecloud Bethune, an African
American educator, founds the Daytona
Educational and Industrial Training
School for Negro Girls in Daytona Beach,
Florida.
http://www.ncnw.org/about/bethune.htm
John D. Rockefeller turned
Standard Oil Company into one
of the most dominant
companies in the United States
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet
.co.uk/USArockefeller.htm
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McGraw-Hill Book Company
was founded in 1909
http://www.mcgrawhill.com/site/aboutus/corporate-history
The National Women's Trade
Union League (WTUL) is
established.
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/
nwtul.html
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Helen Keller graduates from
Radcliffe College
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/
aa/keller/aa_keller_radcliffe_1.
html
The first mass-market camera, the
"Brownie" is introduced by Kodak
http://history1900s.about.com/od/
1900s/p/brownie.htm
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One million people emigrate from
Europe to the USA in just one
year
http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/20t
h.html
Thomas Edison
demonstrated the first
talking motion picture.
http://inventors.about.com/li
brary/inventors/blmotionpict
ures.htm
Motorized movie cameras
invented, replaced handcranked cameras.
http://www.filmsite.org/pre2
0sintro.html
1911-1920
The first Montessori school in the U.S.
opens in Tarrytown, New York.
http://www.hmma.org/dr_montessori.htm
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
and the American Educational Research
Association (AERA) are founded.
http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educati
onhistorytimeline.html#1900
Keating-Owen Act
http://www.enotes.com/keating-owenact-1916-reference/keating-owen-act1916
The Sixteenth Amendment was ratified,
and the income tax was instituted in
the United States.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charte
rs/constitution_amendments_1127.html
Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S.
birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y
http://www.wired.com/science/discove
ries/news/2008/10/dayintech_1016
More than one-third of the U.S.
female workforce work as
housekeepers.
http://www.enotes.com/1910business-economy-americandecades/important-events-businesseconomy
General Electric introduces the first
commercial refrigerator
http://www.greatachievements.org/?i
d=3854
The USA and Panama open the
Panama Canal
http://www.history.com/this-day-inhistory/panama-canal-open-to-traffic
Artificial life begins -- the
first robot built
http://inventors.about.com/
od/timelines/a/twentieth_3.
htm
Garrett A. Morgan invents a
traffic signal www.blackinventor.com
1921-1930
The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is first
administered. www.erikthered.com/tutor/satact-history.html
John Piaget’s The Child's Conception of the
World is published. His theory of cognitive
development becomes an important influence
in American developmental psychology and
education.
http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/education
historytimeline.html#1900
Automobile industry stimulated industries
such as oil, glass, and road-building.
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/U.S._Econo
mic_history
The Stock market of 1929
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/
stockcrash1929.htm
19th Amendment to the
Constitution
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/
A0749825.html
Amelia Earhart takes her first
flying lesson from Neta Snook
www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/aear
hart/timeline.php
The first fax is sent by Western Union
http://corporate.westernunion.com/hist
ory.html/
Films with synchronized voice and
music are introduced
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/history
online/sound.cfm
Karl Jansky invents the
radio telescope
http://www.nrao.edu/whatisr
a/hist_jansky.shtml
Igor Sikorsky invents the
first successful helicopter
http://centennialofflight.gov/
essay/Rotary/Sikorsky_VS
300/HE8.htm
1931-1940
Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon
Grove (California) School District becomes the
first successful school desegregation court case
in the United States.
http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/86spring/l
emongrove.htm
The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale is
developed by David Wechsler.
http://wilderdom.com/personality/intelligenceWAI
SWISC.html
Installation of the first moving assembly line
at Ford Motors
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entri
es/dt13as.html
1932, the unemployment rate was 25%
http://www.econreview.com/events/ur1932b.
htm
Mary McLeod Bethune organizes
the National Council of Negro
Women
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/pe
ople/A0807361.html
Federal law restricting birth
control began changing
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci
/A0856928.html#ixzz23LkDeaa1
President Franklin Roosevelt launches
the "New Deal.“
http://www.fdrheritage.org/fdrbio.htm
The comic strip "Batman" by Bill Finger
and Bob Kane debuts.
http://bobkane.com/
1941-1950
Konrad Zuse's Z3,
the first computer
controlled by
software.
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The atomic bomb
invented.
The G.I. Bill officially known as the
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of
1944, is signed by FDR on June 22.
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The 79th Congress approves the
National School Lunch Act.
Government war orders were done on a
cost-plus basis
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G23468301436.html
American industry doubles in size due
to military demands
http://www.ehow.com/info_8060155_19
40s-economics.html
Roughly half of all women in
America were employed outside
the home
http://www.boredpanda.com/wom
en-at-work-1940s/
Mary Church Terrell's
autobiography, A Colored
Woman in a White World, is
published
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/
civil/jb_civil_terrell_1.html
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and
the USA enters World War II.
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The first "New York Fashion Week" or
"Press Week" is held in New York, the
world's first fashion show.
1951-1960
Fortran (computer
language) invented.
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The computer modem
invented.
The U.S. Supreme Court announces its
decision in the case of Brown v. Board
of Education of Topeka, ruling that
“separate educational facilities are
inherently unequal”
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The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the
first satellite to orbit the Earth. Science
and science education become
important concerns in the U.S.
Federal Highway Act
http://www.history.com/this-day-inhistory/congress-approves-federalhighway-act
Life insurance companies expand
during the 1950’s.
http://elcoushistory.tripod.com/economic
s1950.html
Senator Margaret Chase Smith
denounces the tactics used by
Joseph McCarthy in her
Declaration of Conscience
speech
http://www.mcslibrary.org/progra
m/library/declaration.htm
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her
seat to a white man on a bus in
Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest
sparks a 381-day boycott of the
city's bus system.
http://www.rosaparks.org/
William Boyle invents the
credit card
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Carl Djerassi invents synthetic
progesterone, "the birth-control
pill", at Syntex of Mexico City.
The computer
mouse invented
by Douglas
Engelbart.
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Robert Dennard
invented RAM
(random access
memory).
IBM owns more than 81% of the
computer market
http://www.scaruffi.com/svhistory/sv
/chap81.html
Barbie dolls, introduced by Mattel in
1959, became a huge success in
the 1960’s.
www.dolls4play.com/barbiehistory.h
tml
1961-1970
Samuel A. Kirk uses the term “learning
disability” at a Chicago conference on
children with perceptual disorders.
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Project Head Start, a preschool
education program for children from
low-income families, begins as an eightweek summer program.
President John F.
Kennedy is
assassinated. Schools
close as the nation
mourns its loss.
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Martin Luther King is
assassinated
Searle receives FDA approval to
sell "the pill."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pil
l/index.html
Betty Friedan's The Feminine
Mystique is published
http://womenshistory.about.com/o
d/feminism/a/feminine_mystique.
htm
Information Wave 1970-present
Information wave is the current wave.
During this wave, people have seen a great
change in the way they obtain information.
This change is the direct result in the
invention and advancement of computers
and computer technology. Computers have
change from room sized mainframes to
hand held smartphones.
1971-1980
The floppy disk
invented by Alan
Shugart.
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The word processor
invented.
During an anti-war protest
at Kent State University in
Ohio, four students are
killed by Ohio National
Guard troops.
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Micheal Heart invents the
e-Book.
The 1973 Oil Crisis
http://history.state.gov/milestones/19691976/OPEC
Sear Towers Built
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002846/b_s
ears.htm
Shirley Chisholm becomes the
first African American woman to
run for president
http://www.npr.org/templates/stor
y/story.php?storyId=95828537
The Pregnancy Discrimination
Act is passed www.aauw.org
Electronics writer Don Hoeffler coins the
term "Silicon Valley".
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Ray Tomlinson invents e-mail for sending
messages between computer users, and
invents a system to identify the user
name and the computer name separated
by a "@".
1981-1990
The first IBM-PC
invented.
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The Apple Macintosh
invented.
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Windows program
invented by Microsoft.
Christa McAuliffe is chosen by NASA from
among more than 11,000 applicants to be the
first teacher-astronaut, but her mission ends
tragically as the Space Shuttle Challenger
explodes 73 seconds after its launch, killing
McAuliffe and the other six members of the
crew.
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The University of Phoenix establishes their
"online campus," the first to offer online
bachelor’s and master’s degrees
AT&T is dismantled
http://economics.about.com/od/governm
enttheeconomy/a/telecom.htm
Bull market begins
http://247wallst.com/2011/02/11/lessons
-of-the-greatest-bull-markets-1900-totoday/
The first child conceived by invitro fertilization in the United
States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitr
o_fertilisation Brenda Berkman
begins her career as a New York
City firefighter
http://www.pbs.org/independentle
ns/takingtheheat/index.html
.
The first cases of AIDS are
documented
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The USA, under President Reagan,
engages the Soviet Union in a nucleararms race.
1990-The World
Wide Web and
Internet protocol
(HTTP) and WWW
language (HTML)
created by Tim
Berners-Lee.
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1995 The Java
computer language
invented.
1991-2000
The smart board
(Interactive white board) is
introduced by SMART
Technologies.
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The state of Georgia
becomes the first state to
offer universal preschool to
all four year olds whose
parents choose to enroll
them.
The Dot-com boom.
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolutio
n/the-web/20/394
Rise of infomercials as marketing
corporations advertised “get rich quick”
schemes, beauty products, and other
items http://www.commercialstation.com/history-of-infomercials.html
The Ms. Foundation for Women
launches its first annual Take Our
Daughters to Work Day.
http://www.daughtersandsonstow
ork.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=29
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The Violence Against Women Act
is passed.
http://www.thehotline.org/geteducated/violence-againstwomen-act-vawa/
The USA, Canada and Mexico sign
the "North American Free Trade
Agreement" (NAFTA).
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Craig Newmark starts craigslist.com
on the Internet, a regional advertising
community.
2000-present
2001 Apple
Computers
launched
portable music
digital player
called the iPod.
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2005- YouTube
invented
No Child Left Behind Act
(NCLB) is approved by
Congress and signed into
law by President George W.
Bush.
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The Common Core State
Standards Initiative is
launched.
Enron collapses
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/29/busi
ness/enron-s-collapse-the-overviewenron-collapses-as-suitor-cancelsplans-for-merger.html?pagewanted=all
Subprime housing crisis
http://useconomy.about.com/od/econom
icindicators/tp/Subprime-MortgagePrimer.htm
United States v. Morrison, the
Supreme Court rules that part of
the Violence Against Women Act
is unconstitutional
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/
html/99-5.ZS.html
Sarah Palin runs for VicePresident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_
McCain_presidential_campaign,_
2008
Jimmy Wales founds Wikipedia, a
multilingual encyclopedia that is
collaboratively edited by the Internet
community.
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Arab terrorists affiliated with Osama Bin
Laden's Al Qaeda organization blow up the
World Trade Center, and the USA bombs
the Taliban out of power in Afghanistan.
The End!!