IDT Time Line

  • First school museum

    First school museum
    The first school museum was opened in 1905
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    IDT Time Line

    this Timeline shows the History of IDT
  • Keystone View Company

    Keystone View Company
    The first published visual education by Keystone View Company
  • Slides and stereographs

    Slides and stereographs
    Slides and stereographs were used the supplementary material for educators.
  • First Instructional Film

    First Instructional Film
    Public school system of Rochester, New York became the first to adapt films for regular instructional use.
  • Visual Instruction Movement

    Visual Instruction Movement
    Thomas Edison proclaims” books will be obsolete in the schools. school systems will be completely changed in 10 years
  • The Prediction

    The Prediction
    Thomas editions prediction that visual instruction would became the power house began to show with establishment of five national professional organizations for visual instruction being set
  • Department of Visual instruction DIV

    Department of Visual instruction DIV
    What was once known as the Department of Visual Instruction (DIV) which was created in 1923 is now called what we know today as the Association for Educational Communications and Technology or (AECT)
  • 50 Million Dollar Loss

    50 Million Dollar Loss
    Educational community investment lost more than 50 million dollars mostly due to the great depression
  • Visual aid

    Visual aid
    Visual aid is established by the U.S government.
  • Film

    Film
    More than 4 million showings of training film was used to aid the military.
  • WW2

    WW2
    During world war 2 the audiovisual instruction of schools slowed but audiovisual devices were used extensively with over 400 training films and 600 film strip from the period of 1942-1945
  • Television

    Television
    In the 50s television began to be in popular public demand as it was a new instructional way of learning
  • CAI

    CAI
    The first CAI was developed for language
  • Models

    Models
    Models were used to help understand instructional media and its link with the process of learning
  • Federal communications commission

    Federal communications commission
    242 channels were designated for educational purposes that were soon turn into public stations
  • B F skinner

    B F skinner
    Skinner used programmed instructional material. He said that it would be small step in so that the answer may all be answered correct. with every response being provided with feed back so that learning may take place much quicker.
  • Motion picture

    Motion picture
    Motion picture was one of the first media devices used in schools
  • Robert Mager

    Robert Mager
    Robert Mager wrote "Preparing Objectives for Program Instruction" so that instructors will understand how to write objectives
  • Audiovisual

    Audiovisual
    Media began to incorporate sound into their visual therefore changing the instructional movement into Audiovisual
  • The PC

    The PC
    The personal computer/PC was introduced for the public as a way of being available for the public for instruction
  • David Merrill ISD

    David Merrill ISD
    Developed component display theory
  • HPT

    HPT
    Rise of human performance improvement
  • Instuctional media defintion

    Instuctional media defintion
    Instructional media is the psychical means other than the teacher, chalkboard, textbook
  • LX

    LX
    Rise of big data and learning experience. the newest edition to the IDT field which refines the organizational processes.
  • Social Media

    Social Media
    The social media is on of the most common and most used way in which the public share knowledge and gain knowledge through use of smart phones and compute apps.