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10,000 BCE
1. Agricultural Revolution
The agricultural revolution allowed humans to produce more food and have more children. People now lived in permany dwellings rather than nomadic life. The accumulation of property was another effect of the rise of agriculture. Children's lives changed gradually from the free pursuit of their own interests to increasingly more time spent at work that was required to serve the rest of the family. -
2. The Industrial Revolution
After the advent of agriculture, the education of children was a matter of squashing their willfulness in order to make them good laborers. A good child was an obedient child, who suppressed his or her urge to play and explore and dutifully carried out the orders of adult masters. Punishments of all sorts were understood as intrinsic to the educational process. School after the Industrial Revolution focused on repetition and memorization. -
3. Edison's motion picture
Thomas Edison worked to expand his motion picture industry into education. He envisioned an end to textbooks, with instruction provided through videos. His education film invention is viewed as a failure because he didn't listen to John Dewey's constructivist ideas. -
4. First teaching machine built
Sidney Presley, a psychology professor at Ohio State University displayed a "machine for intelligence testing" at the 1924 meeting of the American Psychological Association. Some scholars credit him with being the first to build a teaching machine. -
5. Apple Kids Can't Wait (KCW) Program Introduced
The idea for the program was to donate a computer to every school in America. California was the first to work with apple to bring the Apple IIe to schools. -
6. Apple Launches the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT) research study
This research was used as the foundation for technology integration over the next decade. Over the next 10 years, they worked with school districts throughout the US and also the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study how the everyday use of technology might impact teaching and learning. They also established Apple Development Centers where they could test different technologies and curricula . -
7. The Internet Arrives
While the original KCW model provided free-standing and networked computers to classrooms, the Internet began to erode the very walls of the classrooms. Now teachers and students could collaborate in real-time with others throughout the world.