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10,000 BCE
Oral Communication Age
In ancient times, stories, folklore, histories and news were transmitted and maintained through oral communication. For the ancient Greeks, oratory and speech were the means by which people learned and passed on learning. -
350 BCE
Primary Written Communication Age
According to the Bible, Moses used chiseled stone to convey the ten commandments in a form of writing, probably around the 7th century BC. However, these written documents were not so accessible to be used in every classroom, until… -
1450
Advanced Written Communication Age
The invention of the printing press in Europe in the 15th century was a truly disruptive technology, making written knowledge much more freely available. As a result of the explosion of written documents, many more people in government and business were required to become literate and analytical, which led to a rapid expansion of formal education in Europe. -
Public Education Begins
When education went public, many technologies became much more available. Blackboard, slateboard, book,etc… -
Audiovisual Age
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began broadcasting educational radio programs for schools in the 1920s. The first adult education radio broadcast from the BBC in 1924 was a talk on Insects in Relation to Man. Radio in 1920s, Film Strip Projector in 1930s and Overhead Projector in 1940s were main technological devices in this era. -
Information Age
Television was first used in education in the 1960s, for schools and for general adult education. In 1970s, televisions combined with VCRs. In 1980s, the field met Audio Taps. -
Computer Age
Skinner started experimenting with teaching machines that made use of programmed learning in1954.Skinner’s teaching machines were one of the first forms of computerbased learning.In the late 1970s,Turoff and Hiltz were experimenting withblended learning.They combined classroom teaching with online discussion forums.At theUniversityofGuelph,CoSy wasdeveloped in the 1980s that allowed foronline threaded group discussion forums,a predecessor to today’s forums contained in learning managemnt systems -
Interaction Age
In 2000s, students began using Laptops, mobile phones in classrooms. Also, mobile calculators and document cameras was used to facilitate learning. -
Social Age
Socialmedia cover a widerange of different technologies,including blogs,wikis, YouTube,mobile devices,Twitter,Skype and Facebook.Socialmedia are strongly associated with many ofthe students in postsecondary education.At the time of writing socialmedia are only just being integrated into formal education,and to date their main educational value has been in nonformal education,such as fostering online communities of practice,or around the edges of clasroom teaching,such as ‘tweets’ during lectures -
References
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu19lWfk3RU
(Information)
PPT provided by Ece Hoca.
https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/chapter/section-8-1-a-short-history-of-educational-technology/
