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30,000 BCE
Cave Drawings
Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, but cave paintings can also be of recent production -
510 BCE
Pythagoras Academy
Pythagoras opened a school called The Semicircle. Pythagoras Academy is the first formal education academy in recorded history. Pythagoras is most famous for his concept of geometry. I -
105
Paper Made in China
We could not imagine world today without paper, but if we look only few centuries to the past, its presence was significantly less noticeable.Paper was invented in ancient china some 2200 years ago, but was popularized by one inventor – Cai Lun -
382
Manuscript Transcription
Manuscript transcription was developed as a writing standard in Europe so that the Latin alphabet could be easily recognized by the literate class from different regions. -
1450
Gutenberg Printing Press
Gutenberg, a goldsmith by profession, developed a printing system, by adapting existing technologies to printing purposes, as well as making inventions of his own.The printing press spread within several decades to over two hundred cities in a dozen European countries. -
Public Education
Public Education that we do til now has been done since 1600, including the invention of Blackboard and Chalkboard which has been found in 1700 and invention of book in 1800. -
Audıovisual Age
Significant advances are made in radio broadcasting and sound recordings.Radio is hailed as the next medium to revolutionize educational instruction. -
Information Age
The Information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age) is a historic period in the 20th century characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy further based upon information technology.In 1952 for the first time, television news was able to broadcast the Republican and Democratic conventions live from Philadelphia to the rest of the nation. -
Computer Age
In 1990 Tim Berners-Lee, working with Robert Cailliau at CERN, proposes a 'hypertext' system, which is the first start of the Internet as we know it today.Later, Tim Berners-Lee successfully sets up the first web server at info.cern.ch on December 25, 1990.
What is widely considered to be the first 3D platform game, Alpha Waves, is released for the Amiga and Atari ST computers. -
Interactive Age
When Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, opened its first technology-enhanced classroom in 1989, complete with projector and computers at every seat, statistics professor Malcolm Getz was delighted. He could now integrate Excel spreadsheets directly into his course at Vanderbilt’s Owen School of Management, rather than send students off to fend for themselves. -
