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Language Lab
The language lab is created. Schools across the country install rooms full of cubicles where students use headsets and listen to audio tapes to learn foreign languages. -
Skinner Teaching Machine
B. F. Skinner, a behavioral scientist, developed a series of devices that allowed a student to proceed at his or her own pace through a regimented program of instruction. -
Educational Television
Television was first used in education in the 1960s, for schools and for general adult education. -
Hi Slide Projector !
Kodak introduces the carousel slide projector. In addition to entertaining family guests, slide projectors were used widely in classrooms for the next few decades. -
The Dynabook
The concept of mobile learning as we are familiar with it today originated in 1968 when Alan Kay conceived the KiddiComp (later renamed Dynabook), a portable, lightweight, battery-operated networked computer with a colour graphical display. While the device was never actualised, many concepts and products came as a result of this original idea. Many people say that the inspiration for today's notepads and laptops are a result of this early technology. -
E-textbook
In 1971, Michael Hart scans and publishes the Declaration of Independence on the internet as the first document of what would eventually become Project Gutenberg, the first digital library in the public domain. Released in 1987 as an effort by Microsoft to showcase the advantages of the CD-ROM medium, Microsoft Bookshelf was the first widely-available educational program in an electronic format. It would be a few decades until selfies, hashtags and the Kardashians made their debuts. -
Apple II
It was released in 1977 and featured Visicalc and educational games such as Oregon Trail. Apple also allowed Bell and Howell to distribute the Apple II to schools. In 1979 the Apple Education Foundation was established, which granted complete Apple II systems to schools. It may not have had the bells and whistles we associate with Apple today, but it was far more advanced than any other technology available to everyday people. -
Tablet Computer
Think tablets are a thing of the new millennium? Think again! The GRiDPAD was released in 1989 and featured a touch-sensitive LCD with an on-screen keyboard and handwriting recognition technology to facilitate writing with the attached stylus. It also had internet capability and could accommodate speakers for music playback. It was the first commercially successful tablet but was expensive and clunky, weighing nearly 1.4 kilos, costing about $3000! -
Bye Chalk, Yes Smartboard !
Buh-bye, chalk. The digital Smart Board allows teachers to display interactive information from their computers. -
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
By 2008, George Siemens, Stephen Downes and Dave Cormier in Canada were using web technology to create the first ‘connectivist’ Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), a community of practice that linked webinar presentations and/or blog posts by experts to participants’ blogs and tweets, with just over 2,000 enrollments. The courses were open to anyone and had no formal assessment. -
The References
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IPAD
A year after Apple releases its first iPad, schools across the country start experimenting with it as a way to replace expensive textbooks and offer students interactive learning experiences. -
The Continuation of References
https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/chapter/section-8-1-a-short-history-of-educational-technology/ http://www.onlineschools.com/in-focus/educational-technology?WT.qs_osrc=gensynd-edtech https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/evolution-of-classroom-technology-jeff-dunn/ http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/the-evolution-of-learning-technology/
