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Horn Book
Wooden paddles with printed lessons were popular through the colonial era. -
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The Learning Machines
The Learning MachinesCreated with the assistance of CHARLES WILSON, MARVIN ORELLANA and MIKI MEEK/THE NEW YORK TIMES, posted at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/19/magazine/classroom-technology.html -
Ferule
A pointer and punishment-all in one device. -
Magic Lantern
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Slate
Personal blackboards for students. -
Chalkboard
A standard, still in use in some schools. -
Pencil
Enduring!!! Gradually replaces the slate. -
Stereoscope
Popular 3-D viewing device marketed to schools with hundreds of pictures. -
Filmstrip projector
The cousin to the motion-picture projector; Thomas Edison predicted that, with the advent of projected images, "books will soon be obsolete in schools. Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye." -
Radio
New York City's Board of Education was the first to pipe lessons to schools through a radio station. Over the next two decades, "schools of the air" would broadcast programs to millions of American students. -
Overhead Projector
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Mimeograph
Surviving into the Xerox age, the mimeograph produced copies through a hand-crank mechanism. -
Reading Accelerator
With an adjustable metal bar that helped the reader march down a page, the device was meant to improve reading efficiency. -
Educational Television
By the early 1960s there were more than 50 channels that included educational programming on the air across the country. -
Liquid Paper
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Filmstrip Viewer
All the begefist of a filmstrip projector, personalized. -
Hand-Held Calculator
Through studies showed that calculators imporved students' attitude toward math, teachers were slow to adopt them for fear that they would undermine the learning of basic skills. -
Scantron
The Scantron Corporation eliminated the hassle of grading multiple-choice exams. -
Plato Computer
Public schools in the United States averaged one computer for every 92 students in 1984; in 2008 there was one computer for every 4 students. -
Personal Computer
IBM presents the personal computer. Schools begin providing classes for personal computing. -
CD-ROM Drive
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Hand-Held Graphing Calculator
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Interactive Whiteboard
The traditional whiteboard was reinbented using a touch-detecting white screen, a projector and a computer. -
iClicker
Allows teachers to poll or qquiz students and receive results in real time. -
iPad
The school slate reimagined.
