EdTech501: Educational Technology

Marian the Librarian

Jan 1, 1962

The film, the Music Man, creates the Marian the Librarian stereotype.

First telephone call made via communication satellite

Jul 10, 1962

First satellite telephone call. Minute 22.

1963 Definition

Jan 1, 1963

Audiovisual communications is that branch of educational theory and practice primarily concerned with the design and use of messages which control the learning process. (Ely, 1963, pp. 18-19).

OCLC founded

Jan 1, 1967

Ohio libraries founded library cooperative which grew to become OCLC, a world-wide library catalog

MARC Standards

Jan 1, 1968

MAchine Readable Catalog standards created to digitize library catalogs

1970 Definition

Jan 1, 1970

A systematic way of designing, carrying out, and evaluating the total process of learning and teaching in terms of specific objectives, based on research in human learning and communication and employing a combination of human and nonhuman resources to bring about more effective instruction (Commission on Instructional Technology, 1970, p. 21).

VCR invented

Jan 1, 1970

1972 Definition

Feb 3, 1972

Educational technology is a field involved in the facilitation of human learning through the systematic identification, development, organization and utilization of a full range of learning resources and through the management of these processes (AECT, 1972, p. 36).

HBO goes on the air

Nov 8, 1972

First HBO signoff

1977 Definition

Jan 1, 1977

Educational technology is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating and managing solutions to those problems involved in all aspects of human learning (AECT, 1977, p. 1).

Apple II

Jun 5, 1977

Apple II commercial

CNN launched

Jun 1, 1980

CNNs First Broadcast

3.5 in floppy disks introduced

Jan 1, 1987

1994 Definition

Jan 1, 1994

Instructional technology is the theory and practice of the design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning (Seels & Richey, 1994, p. 1).

Netscape web browser

Oct 13, 1994

Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer updates librarian image

Mar 10, 1997

Rupert Giles explains aversion to technology

Wikipedia launched

Jan 15, 2001

Patriot Act allows siezure of library records without warrant

Oct 26, 2001

Librarians battle the Patriot Act

FBI complains of "radical militant librarians" protesting the Patriot Act

Oct 1, 2003

Facebook launched

Feb 4, 2004

Kindle

Nov 19, 2007

Kindle introduction

2008 Definition

Jan 1, 2012

Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources (Januszewski & Molenda, 2008, p. 1).