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Toffler’s Three
Waves Timeline
By
Pamela D. Covington
EDUC-7100-2
Strand 1
Toffler’s Three Waves
Agricultural
Age
Industrial
Age
Information
Age
The First Wave:
Agricultural Age
8000 B.C.-1750
Extended family
Family business was agricultural.
People traveled by foot or horses and used face to face communication.
Oral, limited books, multiage groups, and home schooling
The Second Wave:
Industrial Age
1750-1955
Nuclear family
Top down bureaucracies; factories
People traveled by automobiles or planes and communication was face to face.
Books, videos, and filmstrips were used.
Children were grouped by ages and grades that they were in.
The Third Wave:
Information Age
1950-2005
One or both parents worked in the household.
Collaborative teamwork, flexible hours, and locations
Automobiles, planes, and computers
People communicated with cellular phones and computer to computer.
Digital, hyperkids, and the internet
The Fourth Wave:
Communication &
Biotechnology 2005-
This is a wave of creativity found through new innovative technologies and biotechnologies.
Strand 2
Technology: Key advances and innovation for each decade
1900-1909 1910-1919
1901: The first radio receiver, successfully
received a radio transmission.
1907: Auguste & Louis
Lumiere invented color photography.
1910: Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
1918: Edwin H.
Armstrong invents the super heterodyne radio circuit that is used in every radio and TV set today.
1920-1929 1930-1939
1921: The first robot is built creating artificial life.
1923: Garrett A.
Morgan invents the first traffic signal.
Armstrong invents frequency modulation (FM radio).
1937: Chester F.
Carlson invents the photocopier.
1940-1949 1950-1959
1941: Konrad Zuse’s Z3, first computer controlled by software.
1946: Percy Spencer invents the microwave.
1951: 1 st generation of computers:
Introduction of UNIVAC
1951: Charles Ginsburg invents the first video tape recorder (VTR).
1958: 2 nd generation of computers is a direct result of Bell Labs transistor.
1958: Gordon Gould invents the laser.
1960-1969 1970-1979
1962: Audio cassette is invented.
1964: 3 rd generation of computers: Single silicon chip
1967: First handheld calculator is invented.
1973: Robert
Metcalfe & Xerox invent the Ethernet
(local computer network).
1974: 4 th generation of computers:
Microcomputer
1979: Invention of cell phones.
1980-1989
1981: Invention of the first IBM-PC.
1988: Invention of digital cell phones
1990-1999
1990: Tim Berner-
Lee invents the
World Wide Web,
Internet protocol
(HTTP), and WWW language (HTML).
1993: The Pentium
Processor is invented.
2000-Onwards
2001: Apple Computers announces the
IPod.
2007: Apple iPhone.
Reference
http://inventors.about.com/0d/timelines/ a/twentieth.htm
Saettler, Paul. (2004). The evolution of
American educational technology.
Greenwich, CT: Information Age
Publishing.
Strand 3
Work: Business and corporate philosophies by decade
1900-1909 1910-1919
1905: Establishment of the Office of
Public Roads (OPR).
1908: William Durant forms General
Motors.
1913: Ford Motor
Company develops the first moving assembly line for automobiles.
1918: Inauguration of Airmail services.
1920-1929 1930-1939
1923: Nizer markets an electrically refrigerated ice cream dipping cabinet.
1927: General
Electric (GE) introduces the first refrigerator with a completely sealed
1931: Caterpillar manufactures a crawler tractor with a diesel engine.
1933: Tennessee
Valley Authority
(TVA) is established.
refrigerating system.
1940-1949 1950-1959
1940: Oldsmobile introduces the first massed produced, fully automatic transmission.
1947: Sears market the first top-loading automatic washer under Kenmore label.
1952: Russell Hobbs invents the first automatic coffee pot.
1953: DuPont opens a U. S. manufacturing plant to produce
Dacron, a synthetic material.
1960-1696 1970-1979
1962: ARPA
Information
Processing
Technique Office.
1963: First small jet aircraft to enter mass production.
become standard in more cars.
1972: Robert Kahn at BBN organizes the first public demonstration of the new network technology.
1970: Airbags
1980-1989 1990-1999
1984: Philips & Sony introduces the CD-
ROM.
1985: Microsoft releases Windows
1.0.
1993: Network
Solutions manages domain names.
1997: Cadillac is the first American carmakers to offer automatic stability control.
2000-Onwards
2000: Microsoft is ordered to split.
2010: Pringles sell for 2.35 billion.
References
http://www.factmonster.com
http://www.greatachievements.org/ http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelin es/tp/1990timeline.htm
Strand 4
Education: Important theories of learning and instruction by decade
1900-1909 1910-1919
1906: Ivan Pavlov publishes his findings on
Classical
Conditioning.
1907: Maria
Montessori’s
Educational Theory.
1913: John B.
Watson launches the Behaviorist
Revolution.
William H. Kilpatrick develops the
Project Method.
1920-1929 1930-1939
1922: Edward C.
Tolman publishes A
New Formula for
Behaviorism.
1920: Jean Piaget’s
Stages of
Intellectual
Development
1933: Ralph W.
Tyler’s eight Year
Study Plan
1934: William
Bagley writes
Education and
Emergent Man.
1940-1949 1950-1959
1940’s: World War II leads to increase of funding for education research and development.
1946: Edgar Dale develops the Cone of Experience.
1956: Benjamin
Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives
1957: the Soviet launch Sputnik initiates federal funds to education in math and science.
1960-1969 1970-1979
1965: Elementary &
Secondary
Education Act
(ESEA)
1966: Jerome
Bruner’s publishes
Toward a Theory of
Instruction.
1970’s: Criterion
Referenced
Instruction (CRT) is developed by
Robert Mager.
1973: The
Rehabilitation Act becomes law.
1980-1989 1990-1999
1983: Howard
Gardner publishes
Frames of Mind: The
Theory of Multiple
Intelligences.
1984: Computerbased Instruction
Charles Reigeluth breaks ground with his paper on
Elaboration Theory.
Constructivist
Theory spreads.
2000-Onwards
Jerven J. G. van Merrienboer refines the four-Component Instructional Design
System (4C/ID-model) he developed early in 1992.
David Wiley develops Learning Object
Design and Sequencing Theory (LODAS).
References
http://myecoach.com/project.php?id-
121528&propject_step=26135 .
http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/his1
35/Events/Montessori52/Montessori52.html
#Related www.ed.gov/policy/speced/reg/narrativ e.html
Strand 5
Society and culture: Events that determined the thinking of each decade
1900-1909 1910-1919
1903: Orville & Wilbur
Wright, fly first powered, controlled heavier than-air plane at Kitty Hawk.
1909: The National
Association for the
Advancement od
Colored People
(NAACP) is founded in New York led by
W. E. B. Dubois.
1914: World War I begins.
1917: Russian
Revolution
1920-1929 1930-1939
1920: Women’s
Suffrage, 19 th
Amendment gave women the right to vote.
1925: First woman governor elected in
U. S., Nellie Taylor
Ross, elected governor of
Wyoming.
1931: “The Star
Spangled Banner” becomes the national anthem.
1933: 21st
Amendment
Repeals Prohibition.
1940-1949 1950-1959
1941: Attack at Pearl
Harbor brings U. S. into World War II.
1949: Beginning of
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO).
1954: U. S. Supreme
Court (Brown v.
Board of Ed.) unanimously bans racial segregation in public schools.
1955: Martin L. King,
Jr. leads black boycott of
Montgomery,
Alabama bus system.
1960-1969 1970-1979
1960: Martin L. King,
Jr. delivers “I Have a
Dream” speech.
1965: Medicare, senior citizens’ government medical assistance program, begins.
1971: 26 th
Amendment to U. S.
Constitution lowers voting age to 18.
1976: Supreme Court ruled that blacks and other minorities are entitled to retroactive job seniority.
1980-1989 1990-1999
1981: Aids is first identified.
1986: Space Shuttle
Challenger explodes after launch at Cape
Canaveral, Florida.
1990: The Persian
Gulf War.
1993: World Trade
Center bombing in
New York.
2000-Onwards
2001: terrorists attack the United States.
2008: Barack Obama is elected as the first
African-American president.
References
http://rhapsodyinbooks.wordpress.com/2
008/12/05/december-5-1933-
21stamendment-repeals-prohibition/ http://www.infoplease.com/spot/timeline archive.html
Strand 6
Religious
1900-1909 1910-1919
1901: American
Standard Version of the Bible is published.
1901: Pentecostal
Church is formed.
1914: The
Assemblies of God denomination is founded.
1919: World’s
Christian fundamentals association is founded.
1920-1929 1930-1939
1923: The
International Church of the Foursquare
Gospel is founded.
1925: Florida passes a law requiring daily
Bible readings in all public schools.
1935: Televangelist
Jimmy Swaggart is born.
1929: The Methodist
Episcopal Church in the U. S, is reunited after being separated for 109 years.
1940-1949 1950-1959
1945-1949: Three hundred thousand new members joined the Southern Baptists.
Catholics baptized
1million infants in a year.
1951: Billy Graham’s
“Hour of Decision” first aired on ABC.
1957: The
Congregational
Christian Church and
Evangelical &
Reformed Church merge into the
United Church of
Christ (UCC).
1960-1969 1970-1979
1962: The Maryland
Court of Appeals ruled not to force an end to
Bible readings and reciting the “Lord’s
Prayer” in public schools.
1968: Methodist and
Evangelical United
Brethren churches united to form United
Methodist Church in
Dallas.
1973: Decision: Roe v.
Wade, women have a basic right to have an abortion.
1978: The Mormon
Church ended a policy of discrimination against
African-Americans.
1980-1989
1983: The Presbyterian
Church (USA) was created in Atlanta,
GA, reuniting the
United & Southern
Presbyterian churches.
1984: The Southern
Baptist Convention passed a resolution against ordaining women in the Baptist
Church.
1995: An amendment
1990-1999 to the U. S. Constitution allows organized school prayer in public schools.
1997: Governor James of Alabama claimed in Fed. Dist. Court that the religion clauses in the 1 st Amendment do no apply to the states, and can’t be used to find any state laws unconstitutional.
2000-Onwards
2001: Alabama Chief Justice Roy
Moore was sworn into office, pledging that "God's law will be publicly acknowledged in our court."
2004: Mel Gibson's controversial film "The
Passion of the Christ” opens in theaters in the United States.
References
http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/re ligion/blrel_amrel_chron.htm
http://www.greatsite.com/timelineenglish-bible-history/ www.bookblogs.com/history/america-
1940s-religion/
