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30 BCE
Cave Drawings
The role of text or writing in education also has a long history. With the cave drawing, our ancestors tried to communicate and used them for transferring the information.According to the Bible, Moses used chiseled stone to convey the ten commandments in a form of writing, probably around the 7th century BC. -
7 BCE
Written Communication
Writing has had a significant impact on education for a very long history. "According to the Bible, Moses used chiseled stone to convey the ten commandments in a form of writing, probably around the 7th century BC" (Bates, 2019, p. 215). Written language produces analytical, drawn-out lines of reasoning. -
Period: 7 BCE to
Written Communication
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1440
The Printing Press
The Gutenberg printing press in many ways represents a radical shift unprecedented until the arrival of computers today. With the rapid creation of books, and therefore the rapid sharing of knowledge, it was suddenly considered an incredibly important invention for the education. -
The Magic Lantern
The Magic Lantern continued the idea of the importance of images in learning, but now with the ability to have images move, and providing a way to allow the teacher to easily change the images. Use of slates to practice writing became popular. -
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Audiovisual Age
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Broadcasting and Video
The British Broadcasting Corporation began broadcasting educational radio programs for schools in the 1920s. Over the next couple of decades, schools of the air began broadcasting programs to millions of students. -
Film Projector
Similar to the motion-picture projector, Thomas Edison predicted that, thanks to the invention of projected images, “books will soon be obsolete in schools. And it helped teachers support their ideas in a better way. -
Educational Television
Television was first used in education in the 1960s, for schools and for general adult education. The television programs did not use lectures as such, but focused more on the common formats of general television to educate all people. -
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Information Age
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Learning through Computer
In essence the development of programmed learning aims to computerize teaching, by structuring information, testing learners’ knowledge, and providing immediate feedback to learners. -
Period: to
Computer Age
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Internet Technology
It is one of the most important inventions of technology for education. With the help of Internet, it is much more easier to publish and share information. The Word Wide Web was formally launched in 1991. The World Wide Web is basically an application running on the Internet that enables end-users to create and link documents, videos or other digital media. -
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Digital Age
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Online learning environments
In 1995, the Web enabled the development of the first learning management systems (LMSs), such as WebCT. Learning mamagement systems provide an online teaching environment, where content can be loaded and organized, as well as providing ‘spaces’ for learning objectives. -
Social Media
Social media are really a sub-category of computer technology, but their development deserves a section of its own in the history of educational technology. With the help of social media, all users can be able to access many information and content. -
References
All photos from https://pixabay.com/
https://www.tonybates.ca/2014/12/10/a-short-history-of-educational-technology/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFwWWsz_X9s&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=SMARTEduEMEA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_lantern
http://languagemuseum.org/a-brief-history-of-language-learning-technology-pre-computers/
Tony Bates: https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/
