Brandy Collins
May 16, 2010
Strand 1
Toffler’s Wave Theory
Large, extended families
Found land and settled, began domesticating animals and
herding cattle
The children were typically homeschooled by someone in the
family
Families become nuclear
People moved into larger cities
Standardized materials were created and mass production
became a reality
One Parent families are common, both parents work outside
the home
Technologies advance: automobiles, computers, cell phones
and Internet become common in most households
One parent families still common, Both parents work outside the
home still common as well
The ability to collaborate and communicate with others using
technology
Digital classrooms, online classes/schools are extremely common
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Thornburg, D. (Speaker), (2008). The Next Wave, Part 1.
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Toffler, Alvin (1980). The Third Wave. New York: Bantam Books
Cambridge University Press.
Strand 2
Key technological advances and
innovations for each decade
1900-- George Eastman makes first portable camera that's
affordable and open to the public
1901-Electric typewriter is invented
1903- Orville and Wilbur Wright take the first test flight in
their plane at Kitty Hawk, NC
1904-The answering machine is invented
1905-The first Yellow Pages is invented
1906-An animated cartoon is created
1907- The Lamiere brothers create still color photography
1909- First subject on radio talk is about woman's suffrage
1910-Thomas Edison invented the first talking motion picture
1911-Curtiss invented the first Air Conditioner
1911-Kettering invented the first self starter for the automobile
1915-AT&T invented the first long distant radio phone
1919-Charles Strite invents the first pop up toaster
1920- The first commercial radio broadcast is made
1923-Garrett A. Morgan invents the traffic signal
1925-John L. Baird invented the mechanical television
1927- Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo
across the Atlantic Ocean
1930- Vannevar Bush at MIT invented the "differential
analyzer", or analog computer
1932-Edward H. Land invented the Polaroid
1933-Edwin H. Armstrong created the Frequency Modulation
(FM)
1934- Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for
broadcasting - first magnetic recording
1936- Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine
1940- Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system
1941- Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by
software
1942-John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first
electronic digital computer
1944-William Kolff invented he kidney dialysis machine
1946-Percy Spencer invented the first microwave
1950- Ralph Schneider invented the first credit card (Diners)
1951-Charles Ginsburg invented the first video tape recorder
1951- Francis W. Davis invented power steering
1956- The first computer hard disk used
1957-Fortran computer language was invented
1958- The computer modem invented
1963-Audio cassette was invented
1964-John G. Kemeny and Tom Kurtz invented the BASIC
computer language
1967- The first handheld calculator invented
1968- Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse
1969- The arpanet (first internet) invented
1971- James Fergason invented the liquid-crystal display (LCD)
1973-Robert Metcalfe and Xerox invented Ethernet
1978- Robert K. Jarvik invented the artificial heart Jarvik-7
1979-Cell phones were invented
1981-The first IBM-PC computer was invented
1984-The first Apple computer was invented
1985- Windows program invented by Microsoft
1986- Fuji introduced the disposable camera
1988- Digital cellular phones invented
1991- The digital answering machine invented
1993-The Pentium Processor was invented
1995- DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc)
invented
1996-Web TV was invented
2001-Apple announced their version of the portable music
player –The Ipod
2001-Artificial liver invented by Dr. Kenneth Matsumura and
Alin Foundation
2003- Toyota's Hybrid Car
2005- YouTube - the online video sharing and viewing
community - was invented in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley
and Jawed Karim
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1.
Strand 3
The Nature of Work: Business
and Corporate Philosophies
1900-Only 19% of women of working age were part of the
workforce
1908-Henry Ford begins selling automobiles
1913-The U.S. government establishes the Department of
Labor
1919-A record number of 4 million workers strike
1920-Farm organization set up lobbies in Washington
1929-The stock market crashes on October 24th—this day
became known as “Black Thursday”
1930-1933-The Great Depression Begins
1938-Fair Labor Standards Act establishes the minimum wage
1947-American investments abroad reached an all time high
of 26.7 billion
1949-Fair Labor Standards Act outlaws child labor
1950-31% of U.S. women worked outside the home
1950-1st credit cards are issued
1963-Congress passes the Equal Pay Act
1969-The first ATM machine begins operating in New York
1975-Founding of Microsoft
1979-Stagflation Federal Reserve Board tightens down on the
supply of money
1980-Unemployment averages 7.1%
1980-President Carter signs first Chrysler bailout
1990-Inception of the Internet for commerce was introduced
1998-The search engine Google was founded
2001-ENRON files for bankruptsy
2009-Bernie Madoff jailed
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htm
Strand 4
Educational theories of learning
and instruction
1901-John Dewey interpreted the method of empirical science
in educational terms
1902-Edward Thorndike offered his 1st scientific theory of
learning
1912-Frederic Burc developed one of the 1st systems of
individual instruction at the San Francisco State Normal School
1919-Washburne’s Winnetka Plan was developed
1920-Educational Films came out
1925-Henry Clinton Morrison’s--Morrison Plan
Late 1920’s-Lewin’s Field Theory and Science of Instruction
were experimented
1930-Fox Films seeks to place a projector in every classroom
1933-Ralph W. Tyler Eight Year Study use of general and
behavioral objectives and formative evaluation
1934-Visual Instruction books published at an increased rate
1942-Jean Piaget’s Child Development
1947-B F Skinner’s Operant Conditioning
1949-Ralph Tyler publishes Basic Principles of Curriculum and
Instruction
1954-B.F. Skinner publishes The Science o Learning and the
Art of Teaching
1956-Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
1957-Programmed Instruction
1960-PLATO project begins
1965-Elementary and Secondary Education Act was
established
1968-Personalized Instruction—Keller Plan
1969-First broadcast of Sesame Street
1970’s-Robert Mager introduced Criterion Referenced
Instruction
1976-Cognitive Science begins to influence education
1982-Mastery of Teaching by Madeline Hunter was published
1983-Howard Gardner publishes Multiple Intelligences
1983-MD Merrill established the Component Display Theory
1990-IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Educational Act) was
put into force
1990’s-Multimedia as an instructional tool becomes more
popular
1991-First charter schools begin
1995-Bernie Dodge and Tom March developed Webquest
which are used by teachers/instructors
2001-No Child Left Behind was put into act
2008-Obama is elected into office and NCLB may end up
lapsing
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ine.html
Strand 5
Nature of society and culture:
What key events determined
the thinking of the decade?
The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned
airplane
1905- Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and
made famous the equation, E = mc2
1906-The Wright brothers sell their first airplane
1907-1st successful human blood transfusion
1911- Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile
electrical ignition system
1916-American’s worst polio epidemic
1920-19th Amendment to the Constitution granting women
the right to vote was written
1921- Artificial life begins -- the first robot built
1926-Robert Goodard invents liquid fueled rockets
1931-The Empire State Building was completed
1932- Carl C. Magee invents the first parking meter
1933- Richard M. Hollingshead builds a prototype drive-in
movie theater in his driveway
1937- The first jet engine is built.
1944- The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff
1945- The atomic bomb invented
1947- Mobile phones first invented (although cell phones were
not sold commercially until 1983)
1950-The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph
Schneider
1953- Radial tires invented
1954- Oral contraceptives invented - the pill
1959- The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch
1963-Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1969- The artificial heart invented
1969-First ATM is invented and put into use
1972-President Nixon signs into U.S.—Father’s Day will be the
3rd Sunday in June
1973-Roe vs. Wade
1973- Gene splicing invented
1980- The hepatitis-B vaccine invented
1982- Human growth hormone genetically engineered
1983- Soft bifocal contact lens invented
1986-Shuttle Challenger disaster
1990- The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP)
and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee
1993-The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy is implemented for the
U.S military
1999-Columbine High School Massacre
2001- AbioCor artificial heart invented by Abiomed
Vermont becomes the first state in the country to legally
recognize civil unions between gay and lesbian couples
Florida ballot controversy over presidency occurs—George W.
Bush accepts presidency after this occurance
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ime_us.pdf
Strand 6
Political
1905-The Russian Revolution begins
1907-2nd Haque Peace Conference
1910-NAACP was formed
1911- The most successful American Progressive Party is
created, first being named the National Progressive Republican
League, and then, under the leadership of former President
Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, or more popularly,
the Bull Moose Party
1919- Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan, and later
Germany and the USSR, form the League of Nations at the Paris
Peace Conference. The United States does not ratify the treaty
or the covenant of the league
1920-19th Amendment ratified
1920- In response to the Red Scare, in which nearly 10,000
suspected communists were detained by the U.S. government,
the American Union Against Militarism (AUAM) and other
progressive groups band together to form the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU)
1930’s-Great Depression
1933-Upon his inauguration and as a result of the Great
Depression, Franklin Roosevelt enacts his New Deal policies,
which become the largest and most liberal restructuring of the
U.S. government in history
1942-Declaration of United Nations signed in Washington
1945-The U.S. and Soviet Union emerged as powerful nations
1954- Martin Luther King, Jr. begins his career as the leader of
the civil rights movement and plans the Montgomery, Alabama,
bus boycott
1954- In the aftermath of the Brown vs. Board of Education
ruling, which began desegregation in America’s public schools,
Robert P. Patterson forms the White Citizen s’ Council, whose
purpose is to preserve segregation regardless of the Brown
ruling
1961-U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1964- The Civil Rights Act is passed, which guarantees equal
access to commercial establishments, travel facilities,
housing, employment, and all government benefits
without regard to race
1972-President Nixon Watergate Scandal
1973-Roe vs. Wade
1979- Saddam Hussein, who would remain in power for nearly
25 years before an invasion ousted him, becomes the leader of
Iraq
1984- Ronald Reagan wins a second term of the U.S. residency
over Democratic candidate Walter Mondale with the largest
electoral margin in history, signifying the success of rightist
politics in America
1980’s-Global warming awareness begins
1990-Operation Desert Storm
1990-1991-Persian Gulf War
1991-The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is officially
dissolved, having collapsed under the liberal policies of
Mikhail Gorbachev
2001-Terrorist attack in New York
2003Citing a new doctrine of preemptive war, the United
States and Great Britain invade Iraq and topple dictator
Saddam Hussein
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