By
Pamela D. Covington
EDUC-7100-2

Strand 1
Toffler’s Three Waves
Agricultural
Age
Industrial
Age
Information
Age

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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

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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.

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One or both parents worked in the household.
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Collaborative teamwork, flexible hours, and locations
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Automobiles, planes, and computers
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People communicated with cellular phones and computer to computer.
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Digital, hyperkids, and the internet

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
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1901: The first radio receiver, successfully
 received a radio transmission.
1907: Auguste & Louis
Lumiere invented color photography.
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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
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1921: The first robot is built creating artificial life.
1923: Garrett A.
Morgan invents the first traffic signal.
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Armstrong invents frequency modulation (FM radio).
1937: Chester F.
Carlson invents the photocopier.

1940-1949 1950-1959
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1941: Konrad Zuse’s Z3, first computer controlled by software.
1946: Percy Spencer invents the microwave.
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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
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1962: Audio cassette is invented.
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1964: 3 rd generation of computers: Single silicon chip
1967: First handheld calculator is invented.
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1973: Robert
Metcalfe & Xerox invent the Ethernet
(local computer network).
1974: 4 th generation of computers:
Microcomputer
1979: Invention of cell phones.

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1981: Invention of the first IBM-PC.
1988: Invention of digital cell phones
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1990: Tim Berner-
Lee invents the
World Wide Web,
Internet protocol
(HTTP), and WWW language (HTML).
1993: The Pentium
Processor is invented.

2000-Onwards
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2001: Apple Computers announces the
IPod.
2007: Apple iPhone.

Reference
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 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
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1905: Establishment of the Office of
Public Roads (OPR).
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1908: William Durant forms General
Motors.
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1913: Ford Motor
Company develops the first moving assembly line for automobiles.
1918: Inauguration of Airmail services.

1920-1929 1930-1939
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1923: Nizer markets an electrically refrigerated ice cream dipping cabinet.
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1927: General
Electric (GE) introduces the first refrigerator with a completely sealed
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1931: Caterpillar manufactures a crawler tractor with a diesel engine.
1933: Tennessee
Valley Authority
(TVA) is established.
refrigerating system.

1940-1949 1950-1959
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1940: Oldsmobile introduces the first massed produced, fully automatic transmission.
1947: Sears market the first top-loading automatic washer under Kenmore label.
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1952: Russell Hobbs invents the first automatic coffee pot.
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1953: DuPont opens a U. S. manufacturing plant to produce
Dacron, a synthetic material.

1960-1696 1970-1979
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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.
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1970: Airbags

1980-1989 1990-1999
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1984: Philips & Sony introduces the CD-
ROM.
1985: Microsoft releases Windows
1.0.
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1993: Network
Solutions manages domain names.
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1997: Cadillac is the first American carmakers to offer automatic stability control.

2000-Onwards
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2000: Microsoft is ordered to split.
2010: Pringles sell for 2.35 billion.

References
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 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
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1906: Ivan Pavlov publishes his findings on
Classical
Conditioning.
1907: Maria
Montessori’s
Educational Theory.
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1913: John B.
Watson launches the Behaviorist
Revolution.
William H. Kilpatrick develops the
Project Method.

1920-1929 1930-1939
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1922: Edward C.
Tolman publishes A
New Formula for
Behaviorism.
1920: Jean Piaget’s
Stages of
Intellectual
Development
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1933: Ralph W.
Tyler’s eight Year
Study Plan
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1934: William
Bagley writes
Education and
Emergent Man.

1940-1949 1950-1959
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1940’s: World War II leads to increase of funding for education research and development.
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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
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1965: Elementary &
Secondary
Education Act
(ESEA)
1966: Jerome
Bruner’s publishes
Toward a Theory of
Instruction.
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1970’s: Criterion
Referenced
Instruction (CRT) is developed by
Robert Mager.
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1973: The
Rehabilitation Act becomes law.

1980-1989 1990-1999
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1983: Howard
Gardner publishes
Frames of Mind: The
Theory of Multiple
Intelligences.
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1984: Computerbased Instruction
Charles Reigeluth breaks ground with his paper on
Elaboration Theory.
Constructivist
Theory spreads.

2000-Onwards
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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
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 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
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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.
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1914: World War I begins.
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1917: Russian
Revolution

1920-1929 1930-1939
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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.
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1931: “The Star
Spangled Banner” becomes the national anthem.
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1933: 21st
Amendment
Repeals Prohibition.

1940-1949 1950-1959
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1941: Attack at Pearl
Harbor brings U. S. into World War II.
1949: Beginning of
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO).
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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
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1960: Martin L. King,
Jr. delivers “I Have a
Dream” speech.
1965: Medicare, senior citizens’ government medical assistance program, begins.
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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
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1981: Aids is first identified.
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1986: Space Shuttle
Challenger explodes after launch at Cape
Canaveral, Florida.
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1990: The Persian
Gulf War.
1993: World Trade
Center bombing in
New York.

2000-Onwards
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2001: terrorists attack the United States.
2008: Barack Obama is elected as the first
African-American president.

References
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 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
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1901: American
Standard Version of the Bible is published.
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1901: Pentecostal
Church is formed.
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1914: The
Assemblies of God denomination is founded.
1919: World’s
Christian fundamentals association is founded.

1920-1929 1930-1939
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1923: The
International Church of the Foursquare
Gospel is founded.
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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
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1945-1949: Three hundred thousand new members joined the Southern Baptists.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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 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/