Deidre Buckhalter
Walden University
EDUC 7100
Agricultural
Era
•8000 B.C. – 1750
A.D.
Industrial Era
Information Era
The 4th Wave
•1750 A.D. - 1955
•1955 - Present
•2015-?
8000 B.C. – 1750 A.D.
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Most humans lived in small, often migratory
groups and fed themselves by foraging,
hunting, fishing, or herding(1980).
People were dependent on the land and the
seasons of the agricultural world (2008).
1750 A.D. - 1955
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Reformed life globally
Families were separated to work in towns and
factories (2008).
Extended family living together were no
longer common. The family structure
consisted of father, mother, and children.
Mass production and factories were common.
1955 - Present
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Most people live outside the nuclear family
model (1980).
Flexible hours, casual Fridays, and working
from home are all examples of the shifts that
occurred in the world of work (2008).
Communication is increased through usage of
internet, wireless phones, and internet.
2015-?
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I predict the 4th wave, biotechnology to begin
in 2015.
Biotechnology will create a growth in science
and medicine globally.
Biotechnology will create a division between
society based on morals.
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Three Waves of Technology
Key technological advances and innovations
The Nature of Work
Educational theories of learning and instruction
Nature of Society and Culture
Political
1750 A.D.- 1955 Industrial Era
1900 - Fessenden
transmitted the first
radio broadcast from
Brant Rock Station, MA.
1900
1900 – Progressive
Era
1904-Mary
McLeod
Bethune
founds the
Daytona
Educational
and Industrial
Training School
Production Era
1900 – Telephone transmission
extends across and between major
cities
1903 – US acquires
Panama Canal
1903 – The Wright
Brothers invented
the first powered
airplane.
1908 - James
Sprangler invented
the electric
vacuum cleaner
1905
1909
1907- Maria Montessori founded
the first Casa dei Bambini,
“Children’s House”
1905- Albert Einstein
introduces his special
theory of relativity
1908- FBI is
established
Industrial Era
1913- Woodrow
Wilson is inaugurated
28th president
In 1913, Edwin
Armstrong invented
the regenerative
circuit.
1910
1910 –
Ragtime
Era
1913- Edward
Thorndike
publishes book,
1915
Educational
Psychology: The
Psychology of
Learning
1914- World
War I Era
1913- Irving Langmuir
invented the
Incandescent Electric
Lamp
1913- Electricity is brought to Los
Angeles
1913- New method of oil refining is
introduced
1919
1919- Treaty
of Versailles is
signed
Industrial Era
1923Teapot
Dome
1920
1921- Warren
Harding is elected
president
1921 – First major aerial
dusting of crops
1924- Gestalt
Theory
1928- The first
transatlantic
transmission
1925 - John Logie Baird
invented the television.
1925
1929
1927 – First
refrigerator to mass
produced with
completly sealed
refrigerating system
1920- Roaring
Twenties
19th Amendment
1929- Jean Piaget
pblishes The Child’s
Conception of the World
Industrial Era
1931- Star
Spangled is
adopted as
national
anthem
1935- The first
generator at
Hoover Dam
begins operation
1931
1935
1933- Ralph
Tyler – Eight
Year Study
1933- Congress
establishes Tennessee
Valley Authority
1932- The
Great
Depression
1933- The New
Deal, Franklin
Roosevelt
1934 – William
Bagley writes
Education and
Emergent Man
1938- Chestor
Carlson invented
the photocopying
process.
1939
1935- Social Security Act
1937 – Grote
Reber invented
the radio
telescope.
1939 – Igor
Sikorsky
invented the
helicopter.
1939 – John
Atanasoff invented
the Atansoff-Berry
Computer
Industrial Era
1944 – Howard
Aiken invented the
Mark 1 Computer.
1940
1944 – GI Bill is
signed by FDR
1943- First
commercially
viable mechanical
spindle cotton
picker
1941Japan
surprise
attack on
Pearl
Harbor
1945
1946- John
Mauchly and J.
Eckert invented the
ENIAC Computer
1945 –
United
Nations
1945- Microwave
oven was
invented by Percy
Spencer
1949
1947- The first
commercial oil well
out of sight of land
1949 – Ralph Tyler
publishes Basic
Principles of
Curriculum and
Instruction
1947- CIA
established
President Succession
Act
Industrial Era 1750 A.D. - 1955
Information Era 1955- present
1950-1953- Korean War
1948-1960
Post War Period
1951 – Jay Forrester
invented Random
Access Memory
1955
1950
1952 – Grace Hopper
invented the first
computer complier
1955- Tarco, Idao
becomes the first to
have all electrical needs
generated by a nuclear
power plant
1953- B.F. Skinner’s
Science and Human
Behavior is
published.
1958 – Jack Kilby
and Robert Noyce
invented the
Integrated Circuits
1955Bus
Boycott
in
Montgo
mery, AL
1956Benjamin
Bloom –
Taxonomy of
Educational
Objectives
1959
1959- Alaska becomes
the 49th state
1959- The first large
geothermal
electricity=genrating
plant opens in New
Zealand
Information Era
Civil Rights Movement 1954-1965
1969- Zero Power Physics Reactor
goes operational
1961- Jerome
Bruner publishes
The Process of
Education
1960
1965
1962 – Vtgotsky’s Social
Development Theory
1966 – Jack
Kilby, J.
VanTassel & J.
Merryman
invented the
Hand-held
Calculator
1965- The first electronic central
office switching system
1963- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
delivers “I Have
a Dream
Speech”
President John
F. Kennedy is
assassinated
1968Assassination of
Martin Luther
King, Jr.
1969
1968- Douglas
Engelbart invented
the Computer
Mouse
Robeert Dennard
invented the Dynamic
Random Access
Memory
Ted Hoff invented
the microprocessor
Information Era
1970- Jean Piaget, The
Science of Education is
published.
Learning Cycle Model
Criterion Referenced
Instruction, Robert
Mager
1970
1973 –
Vinton Cerf
invented
the
Internet.
Robert
Metcalfe
invented
Ethernet
1972- Ralph Baer
invented the
Magnavox Odyssey
(first home video
game console)
1971- 26th
Amendment
1977- Jimmy
Carter is
inaugurated
as the 39th
president
1972 Watergate
1975
1974Energy
Reorgani
ztion Act
of 1974
1973- Roe vs.
Wade
1977- Dennis
Hayes and Dale
Heatherington
invented the PC
Modem
1976 – Steve
Jobs and
Steve Wozniak
invented the
Personal
Computer
1979
1978- Public Utility Regulatory
Policies Act
Information Era
1981-1989
Ronald Reagan president
1980
1983 – Richard
Frenkiel and Joel
Engel invented the
Mobile Phone
1989- George Bush is
elected as president
1985
1986 – Space Shuttle
Challenger explodes
1982 - Recession
1980s –
Introduction of the
open-graded
friction course
1982- Madeline
Hunter’s Direct
Teaching Model
1989
1985Windows
program was
invented by
Microsoft
1983- MD
Merrill,
Comoponent
Display Theory
NSFNET contract is
awarded to the
team of IBM and
MCI
Information Era
1998- House of
Representatives
impeach President
Bill Clinton
1991- Tim
Berners-Lee
invented the World
Wide Web
1990
1994NAFTA
1995
1996- UV
Waterworks
1999
1990-1991- Gulf
War
1990 – Rapid Prototyping
instructional design
1990- Iraqi troops
invade Kuwait
1994- Farmers begin
using Global Positioning
System
1993 - Jacqueline
and Martin Brooks,
n Search of
Understanding :
The Case for
Constructivist
Classrooms- The
Constructivist
Theory
1999Sergey Brin
and Larry
Page
invented
Google
Information Era 1955- present
2000- World
record reliability
benchmarks
2000100,000,000
cellular phone
subscribers
2000
2005
2011+
9/11
attacks
2001- Tony
Fadell invented
the IPOD
2000 – Learning
Object Design
and Sequencing
Theory, David
Wiley II
2002- Jeroen
J.G.
Merrienboer
4C/ID Model
2007H.G. Well
invented
the IPhone
2009
2007- Nancy Pelosi
becomes the first
woman Speaker of
the House of
Representatives
2005Hurricane
Katrina
causes a state
of emergency
in MS and LA
2008- Barack
Obama is
elected
president
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