Toffler’s Wave
Theory
Timeline-Strand 1
By: Jason Vaught
AGRICULTURAL AGE
8000 B.C. - 1750
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Extended Families.
The family business was Agriculture.
People traveled by foot or horse and children
were homeschooled or learned in a one room
school.
INDUSTRIAL AGE
1750-1950
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Nuclear families.
Top down bureaucratic factories.
Students were grouped by age and grade levels.
Automobiles and planes were introduced.
INFORMATION AGE
1955-2005
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One parent, two working parents.
Automobiles, planes, computers, cell phones and
Internet.
COMMUNICATION AGE
2005-CURRENT
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One parent, two working parents.
Digital classrooms
RESOURCE
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Toffler, Alvin (1980). The third wave. New York,
NY: Bantam Books.
Strand 2:
Key technological advances and
innovations for each decade
1900-1910
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Hubert Booth
invents the
vacuum cleaner
in 1901
The Wright
brothers’
heavier-than-air
Kitty Hawk in
1903
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Thomas Edison
invents the first
talking motion
picture in 1910
Charles Strite
invents the Pop
Up toaster in
1919
1920-1930
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Garrett A.
Morgan invents
a traffic signal in
1923
The mechanical
television was
invented by
John Logie
Baird in 1925
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1932 Edward
Herbert Land
invented the
Polaroid
1933 Edwin
Howard
Armstrong
created the
Frequency
modulation (FM)
1940-1950
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John Atanasoff
and Clifford
Berry built the
first electronic
digital computer
in 1942
1946 Percy
Spencer
invented the
microwave oven
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Charles
Ginsburg
invented the
first video tape
recorder in 1951
Fortran
computer
language was
invented in
1957
1960-1970
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1962- Audio
cassette
1964- BASIC
computer
language was
invented by
John George
Kemeny and
Tom Kurtz
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Robert Metcalfe
and Xerox
invented
ethernet in 1973
1979- Cell
phones
1980-1990
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1981- the first
IBM-PC was
invented
1984- the Apple
Macintosh was
invented
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1993- the
pentium
processor
1996- Web TV
invented
2000 and beyond…
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2001- Apple computers
announced their portable music
digital player the iPod
Resources
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1
7372/technology_changes_and_inventions
_in.html
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http://inventors.about.com/od/ti
melines/a/twentieth_3.htm
Strand 3:
The nature of work: Business and
corporate philosophies
1900-1910
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24 million U.S.
registered workers
age 10 and above
in 1900
1900- Only 19% of
women of working
age participated in
the work force
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1913 The U.S.
government
establishes the
Department of
Labor
1919 a record 4
million workers
strike
1920-1930
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1920 Farm
organization set
up lobbies in
Washington
1929 Stock
market crashes
on October 24
known as “Black
Thursday”
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1930-1933 The
Great
Depression
begins
1938 Fair Labor
Standards Act
establishes the
minimum wage
1940-1950
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1947 American
investments
abroad reached
an all time high
of 26.7 billion
1949 Fair Labor
Standards Act
outlaws child
labor
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1950-31 percent
of U.S. women
worked outside
the home
1950- the first
Xerox copy
machined was
produced
1960-1970
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1963 Congress
passes the
Equal Pay Act
1969 the first
automated teller
machine begins
operating in
Rockville
Centre, N.Y.
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1975-Founding
of Microsoft
1970sWatergate affair
1980-1990
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1980Unemployment
averages 7.1
percent
On January 1,
the average car
costs $7,574
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1998- Google
was founded
1990sInception of the
internet for
commerce
Resources
http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth_3.htm
Strand 4:
Educational theories of learning
and instruction
1900-1910
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1901- John Dewey
interpreted the
method of
empirical science
in educational
terms
1902 Edward
Thorndike offered
the 1st course in
educational
measurements at
Columbia
University
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Frederic Burk
developed on of
the 1st systems of
individual
instruction at the
San Francisco
State Normal
School in 1912
Washburne’s
Winnetka Plan
was developed in
1919
1920-1930
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Henry Clinton
Morrison’s
Morrison Plan
(1925-1935)
Lewin’s Field
Theory and
Science of
Instruction were
experimented in
the late 1920s
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1933- Ralph W.
Tyler Eight Year
Study use of
general and
behavioral
objectives and
formative
evaluation
1934- William
Bagley writes
Education and
Emergent Man
1940-1950
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1946 Edgar Dale
developed the
Cone of
Experience
1949 Ralph Tyler
publishes Basic
Principles of
Curriculum and
Instruction
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1954 B.F. Skinner
publishes The
Science of
Learning and the
Art of Teaching
1956 Benjamin
Bloom’s Taxonomy
of Educational
Objectives
1960-1970
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1965
Elementary and
Secondary
Education Act
(ESEA) was
established
1969 First
broadcast of
Sesame Street
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70’s –Criterion
Referenced
Instruction (CRI)
is introduced by
Robert Mager
1976- Steve
Jobs and Steve
Wozniak desige
the Apple I
computer
1980-1990
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1983 Howard
Gardner
publishes
Multiple
Intelligences
1983 MD Merrill
established the
Component
Display Theory
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1995 Bernie
Dodge and Tom
March
developed
Webquest
1990s use of
multimedia in
instruction
2000…
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Jeroen J G van Merrienboer
refines the Four Component
Instructional Design System
David Wiley develops Learning
Object Design and Sequencing
Theory (LODAS)
Resources
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http://myecoach.com/project.php?id=121
52&project_step=26137
Strand 5:
Nature of society and culture: What key
events determined the thinking of the
decade?
1900-1910
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1903 Orville
Wright heavierthan-air
machine flight
1907 1st
successful
human blood
transfusion
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1916 Americas
worst polio
epidemic
1918 Spanish
influenza killed
over 500,000U.S. worst
single epidemic
1920-1930
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1920 19th
Amendment to
the Constitution
granting women
the right to vote
1928 Walt
Disney dreams
up Mickey
Mouse
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1931- The
Empire State
Building was
completed
1938 Cloning
envisioned by
Dr. Hans
Spemann in
Germany
1940-1950
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1939-1945
World War II
1945 first
vaccine for
influenza
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1954 Brown v.
BOE of Topeka
Kansas
1958 Bank of
America issued
the first bank
credit card,
BankAmericard
(now Visa)
1960-1970
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1963 the
assassination of
John F.
Kennedy
1965 Executive
Order 11246
enforces
affirmative
action for first
time
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1972 President
Nixon signs into
law U.S.
Father’s Day
the 3rd Sunday
of June
1973 Roe v.
Wade
1980-1990
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1982 Michael
Jackson
releases Thriller
1986 Space
Shuttle
Challenger
disaster
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1993 “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell”
policy is
instituted for the
U.S. Military
1999 Columbine
High School
massacre
2000…
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Vermont becomes the first state
in the country to legally
recognize civil unions between
gay or lesbian couples
George W. Bush accepts the
presidency after Florida ballot
controversy
References
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http://www.infoplease.com/spot/t
imelinearchive.html
Strand 6:
Political…
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1905-Russian Revolution
begins
1907- 2nd Haque Peace
Conference
1912- Balkan Wars
1914-1918 World War I
1920- 19th Amendment
ratified (Women’s
suffrage)
1923- Adolf Hitler’s “Beer
Hall Putsch” in Munich
fails
1930s-Great Depression
Uprise of Facism in the
1930s
World War II (1939-1945)
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1942- Declaration of
United Nations signed in
Washington
1945 the U.S. and Soviet
Union emerged as
powerful nations
Korean War (1950-1953)
Vietnam War(1957-1975)
The Great Chinese
Famine (1959-1962)
1961 U.S. breaks
diplomatic relations with
Cuba
1972- President Nixon
Watergate Scandal
1973 Roe v. Wade
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Global warming awareness began in
the 80s
The U.S. developed the Space
Shuttle program in 1981
Operation Desert Storm- 1990
Persian Gulf War (1990-1991)
2001- 9/11 Terrorist attack in New
York
Resources
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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB39/
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http://www.infoplease.com/ip
a/A0005251.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_
century
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http://watergate.info/