Evolution of Educational TechnologyYolanda Thompkins

Timeline key

•Strand 1: Toffler’s Wave Theory•Strand 2: Technology•Strand 3: Work•Strand 4: Education•Strand 5: Society and Culture•Strand 6: Women Issues

1800bc-1900Agricultural Wave 1800 bc-1750

Agricultural wave began at the end of the Stone Age. People of that time began clear land and planting large gardens that allowed them to land off the land. As a result hunting and gathering groups began to live a less nomadic lifestyle.

Industrial Wave1750-1950Industrial wave took approximately two hundred years to complete. During this time period great changes were made to the way of life for the vast majority of people of earth. Although there were period of great depression, people began more wealthy and products were mass produced.

1901-1910Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blescalator.htm _____________________Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.http://www.allaboutscience.org/theory-of-relativity.htm

John D. Rockefeller turned Standard Oil Company into one of the most dominant companies in the United Stateshttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USArockefeller.htm _______________________McGraw-Hill Book Company was founded in 1909 http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/site/about-us/corporate-history

In Joliet, Illinois, the first public community college in the U.S. is opened. It is names the Joliet Junior College.http://www.jjc.edu/about/college-info/Pages/history.aspx ________________________________Mary Mecloud Bethune, an African American educator, founds the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona Beach, Florida. http://www.ncnw.org/about/bethune.htm

The first mass-market camera, the "Brownie" is introduced by Kodakhttp://history1900s.about.com/od/1900s/p/brownie.htm _______________________One million people emigrate from Europe to the USA in just one yearhttp://www.scaruffi.com/politics/20th.html

The National Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) is established.http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/nwtul.html _____________________ Helen Keller graduates from Radcliffe Collegehttp://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/keller/aa_keller_radcliffe_1.html

1911-1920Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras.http://www.filmsite.org/pre20sintro.html

Keating-Owen Act http://www.enotes.com/keating-owen-act-1916-reference/keating-owen-act-1916The Sixteenth Amendment was ratified, and the income tax was instituted in the United States. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html

The first Montessori school in the U.S. opens in Tarrytown, New York.http://www.hmma.org/dr_montessori.htm The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) are founded.http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.html#1900

Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, N.Yhttp://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/10/dayintech_1016 More than one-third of the U.S. female workforce work as housekeepers. http://www.enotes.com/1910-business-economy-american-decades/important-events-business-economy

General Electric introduces the first commercial refrigerator http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3854 The USA and Panama open the Panama Canal http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/panama-canal-open-to-traffic

1921-1930Artificial life begins -- the first robot built http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth_3.htm Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal www.black-inventor.com

The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is first administered. www.erikthered.com/tutor/sat-act-history.html John Piaget’s The Child's Conception of the World is published. His theory of cognitive development becomes an important influence in American developmental psychology and education. http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.html#1900

The first fax is sent by Western Union http://corporate.westernunion.com/history.html/ Films with synchronized voice and music are introduced http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/sound.cfm

Automobile industry stimulated industries such as oil, glass, and road-building. http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/U.S._Economic_history The Stock market of 1929 http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/stockcrash1929.htm

19th Amendment to the Constitution http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0749825.html Amelia Earhart takes her first flying lesson from Neta Snook www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/aearhart/timeline.php

1931-1940Karl Jansky invents the radio telescope http://www.nrao.edu/whatisra/hist_jansky.shtml Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter http://centennialofflight.gov/essay/Rotary/Sikorsky_VS300/HE8.htm

Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove (California) School District becomes the first successful school desegregation court case in the United States. http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/86spring/lemongrove.htm The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale is developed by David Wechsler. http://wilderdom.com/personality/intelligenceWAISWISC.html

President Franklin Roosevelt launches the "New Deal.“ http://www.fdrheritage.org/fdrbio.htm The comic strip "Batman" by Bill Finger and Bob Kane debuts. http://bobkane.com/

Installation of the first moving assembly line at Ford Motorshttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dt13as.html  1932, the unemployment rate was 25% http://www.econreview.com/events/ur1932b.htm

Mary McLeod Bethune organizes the National Council of Negro Women http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0807361.html Federal law restricting birth control began changing http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0856928.html#ixzz23LkDeaa1

1941-1950Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.________________The atomic bomb invented.

The G.I. Bill officially known as the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, is signed by FDR on June 22._____________________________The 79th Congress approves the National School Lunch Act.

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and the USA enters World War II.__________________________________The first "New York Fashion Week" or "Press Week" is held in New York, the world's first fashion show.

Government war orders were done on a cost-plus basis http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3468301436.html  American industry doubles in size due to military demands http://www.ehow.com/info_8060155_1940s-economics.html

Roughly half of all women in America were employed outside the home http://www.boredpanda.com/women-at-work-1940s/  Mary Church Terrell's autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World, is published http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_terrell_1.html

1951-1960

Fortran (computer language) invented._____________________The computer modem invented.

The U.S. Supreme Court announces its decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ruling that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” _______________________________The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the Earth. Science and science education become important concerns in the U.S.

William Boyle invents the credit card________________________Carl Djerassi invents synthetic progesterone, "the birth-control pill", at Syntex of Mexico City.

Federal Highway Act http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-approves-federal-highway-act  Life insurance companies expand during the 1950’s. http://elcoushistory.tripod.com/economics1950.html

Senator Margaret Chase Smith denounces the tactics used by Joseph McCarthy in her Declaration of Conscience speech http://www.mcslibrary.org/program/library/declaration.htm Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest sparks a 381-day boycott of the city's bus system. http://www.rosaparks.org/

1961-1970The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.______________Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).

Information Wave 1970-present Information wave is the current wave. During this wave, people have seen a great change in the way they obtain information. This change is the direct result in the invention and advancement of computers and computer technology. Computers have change from room sized mainframes to hand held smartphones.

Samuel A. Kirk uses the term “learning disability” at a Chicago conference on children with perceptual disorders.___________________________Project Head Start, a preschool education program for children from low-income families, begins as an eight-week summer program.

President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Schools close as the nation mourns its loss. ___________________Martin Luther King is assassinated

IBM owns more than 81% of the computer market http://www.scaruffi.com/svhistory/sv/chap81.html  Barbie dolls, introduced by Mattel in 1959, became a huge success in the 1960’s. www.dolls4play.com/barbiehistory.html

Searle receives FDA approval to sell "the pill." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/index.html Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique is publishedhttp://womenshistory.about.com/od/feminism/a/feminine_mystique.htm

1971-1980

The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart.__________________The word processor invented.

During an anti-war protest at Kent State University in Ohio, four students are killed by Ohio National Guard troops.______________________Micheal Heart invents the e-Book.

Electronics writer Don Hoeffler coins the term "Silicon Valley"._________________________________Ray Tomlinson invents e-mail for sending messages between computer users, and invents a system to identify the user name and the computer name separated by a "@".

The 1973 Oil Crisishttp://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/OPEC Sear Towers Built http://library.thinkquest.org/J002846/b_sears.htm

Shirley Chisholm becomes the first African American woman to run for president http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95828537 The Pregnancy Discrimination Act is passed www.aauw.org

1981-1990The first IBM-PC invented. __________________The Apple Macintosh invented.__________________Windows program invented by Microsoft.

Christa McAuliffe is chosen by NASA from among more than 11,000 applicants to be the first teacher-astronaut, but her mission ends tragically as the Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after its launch, killing McAuliffe and the other six members of the crew.________________________________The University of Phoenix establishes their "online campus," the first to offer online

bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

The first cases of AIDS are documented_______________________________The USA, under President Reagan, engages the Soviet Union in a nuclear-arms race.

AT&T is dismantled http://economics.about.com/od/governmenttheeconomy/a/telecom.htm  Bull market beginshttp://247wallst.com/2011/02/11/lessons-of-the-greatest-bull-markets-1900-to-today/

The first child conceived by in-vitro fertilization in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_fertilisation Brenda Berkman begins her career as a New York City firefighter http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/takingtheheat/index.html

1991-20001990-The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee._______________1995 The Java computer language invented.

The smart board (Interactive white board) is introduced by SMART Technologies.______________________The state of Georgia becomes the first state to offer universal preschool to all four year olds whose parents choose to enroll them.

The USA, Canada and Mexico sign the "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA).______________________________Craig Newmark starts craigslist.com on the Internet, a regional advertising community.

The Dot-com boom. http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/the-web/20/394  Rise of infomercials as marketing corporations advertised “get rich quick” schemes, beauty products, and other items http://www.commercial-station.com/history-of-infomercials.html

The Ms. Foundation for Women launches its first annual Take Our Daughters to Work Day. http://www.daughtersandsonstowork.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=293   The Violence Against Women Act is passed. http://www.thehotline.org/get-educated/violence-against-women-act-vawa/

2000-present2001 Apple Computers launched portable music digital player called the iPod._____________2005- YouTube invented

No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is approved by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush. ______________________The Common Core State Standards Initiative is launched.

Jimmy Wales founds Wikipedia, a multilingual encyclopedia that is collaboratively edited by the Internet community.__________________________________Arab terrorists affiliated with Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization blow up the World Trade Center, and the USA bombs the Taliban out of power in Afghanistan.

Enron collapses http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/29/business/enron-s-collapse-the-overview-enron-collapses-as-suitor-cancels-plans-for-merger.html?pagewanted=all Subprime housing crisis http://useconomy.about.com/od/economicindicators/tp/Subprime-Mortgage-Primer.htm

United States v. Morrison, the Supreme Court rules that part of the Violence Against Women Act is unconstitutional http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-5.ZS.html Sarah Palin runs for Vice-President.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain_presidential_campaign,_2008

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