History of Instructional Technology

By cplash

  • History of Instructional Technology

  • First School Museum Opens

    First School Museum Opens
    The first school museum opens in St. Louis, Missouri. "These museums served as the central administrative unit(s) for visual instruction by (their) distribution of portable museum exhibits".

  • Visual Education

    Visual Education
    The motion picture projector was one of the first media devices used in schools.

  • Instructional Films

    Instructional Films
    In the United States, the first catalog of instructional films was published in 1910. Later that year, the public school system of Rochester, NY, became the first to adopt films for regular instructional use.

  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    He proclaimed: "Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture. Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years."

  • The Department of Visual Instruction

    The Department of Visual Instruction
    One of the most significant events of this year was the merging of three existing national professional organizations for visual instruction.

  • Cone of Experience

    Cone of Experience
    Edgar Dale created the cone of experience. Throughout the history of the audiovisual instruction movement, many have indicated that part of the value of audiovisual materials is their ability to present concepts in a concrete manner.

  • Instructional Television

    Instructional Television
    The most important factor to affect the audiovisual movement in the 1950s was the increased interest in television as a medium for delivering instruction.

  • Bloom's Taxonomy

    Bloom's Taxonomy
    Developed by Dr. Benjamin Bloom. The purpose was to promote higher forms of thinking in education instead of just memorizing.

  • Shifting Terminology

    Shifting Terminology
    By the early 1970s, the terms educational technology and instructional technology began to replace audiovisual instruction to describe the application of media for instructional purposes.

  • IBM

    IBM
    IBM introduced its first personal computer and Time magazine named it "Machine of the Year".

  • Computers for Instruction

    Computers for Instruction
    By the early 1980s, there was an increased interest in using computers for instruction (more than 40% of all elementary schools and 75% of all secondary schools).

  • Apple

    Apple
    Apple introduces their MAC.

  • Toshiba

    Toshiba
    Toshiba released its first mass-market consumer laptop.

  • PDAs

    PDAs
    Personal Digital Assistants were released by Apple Computer Inc.