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30,000 BCE
Pictographic writing
Were a main media to preserve knowledge of the world surrounding the cave men. -
4000 BCE
Ideographic elements
Symbolize ideas through an iconic representation. -
510 BCE
Pythagorean school
A school was opened based on the teachings by the famous Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras. -
400 BCE
"I know that I know nothing"
Socrates teaching is a form of inquiry and discussion between teacher and students, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking. -
105 BCE
Invention of paper (China)
Before the invention of paper Chinese scribes used a rigid tip to write on strips of wood or bamboo, and the rest of the world used materials like papyrus or parchment. -
Oct 27, 1450
Printing press
The problem of availability of manually copied manuscripts had improved when Johannes Gutenberg, a German goldsmith, invented the modern printing press with movable type. -
Horn books
Public education emerged with horn-books as the media that transmitted knowledge in a written form to the students. -
Tachygraphy
Sir Isaac Pitman sent shorthand postcards to his students and received student feedback as a response. A shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed of writing. -
¡Pencils and papers!
It replaced school slates and chalks. -
Radio emerged
Allowing students to learn from radio programs. -
Film projector
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Ballpoint pen
The first ballpoint pen was introduced in schools. -
New technologies!
First headphones and TVs arrived to schools. -
First handheld calculator
The first handheld calculator arrived to schools, allowing pupils to type in the operands and perform mathematical operations in a single click. -
First personal computer arrived to the market
As well as computer games. -
IBM Pc's
Their use was limited to word processing. Also, there was no World Wide Web at the time. -
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Digital age!
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WWW
With the appearance of the World Wide Web, pupils could send e-mails, and research the Internet. -
Technologies in classrooms!
Tablets, smartphones, smartboards, QRs, NFCs and other exciting technologies are slowly finding their place in classrooms. 2000 websites are created every hour, 35 hours are uploaded every minute, 2 billion of movies on YouTube are watched every day.
