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Radios
Classrooms begin incorporating radios into penmanship, accounting, history and arithmetic lessons -
Overhead projectors
Initially they were used for US military training and quickly spread to schools -
Silent Films
52% of schools are using silent films and 3% are using films with sound -
Television
First TV appears in an LA classroom -
Headphones
Started becoming popular language labs in school -
BASIC
Developed at Dartmouth College with the intent of giving students a simple programming language that is easy to learn -
Calculator
Texas Instruments develops the handheld calculator -
Scantrons
Used to automatically grade multiple choice tests -
The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium
The organization popularizes school software such as Lemonade Stand and Oregon Trail (1974) -
APPLE Macintosh Computer
The ratio of computers to students in US schools is 1-92 -
Touch Typing
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is developed and popularized in school -
Laptops
Laptops are introduced and utilized as teaching tools -
CD-ROMs
Become a predominant form of storage -
Smart Boards
Schools are introduced to Smart Boards -
Internet Access
According to NCES about about 35% have internet access (1994) 99% of schools have internet access (2002) -
IPAD
1.5 million Ipads are used in US schools
