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Alvin Toffler’s The Third Wave

Alvin Toffler’s The Third Wave. Amanda L. Darlington Time Line Educational Technology 7100. Toffler’s Three Waves Timeline Strands/Color Codes. Strand 1:  Toffler's three waves, and the fourth wave if you believe we have entered one

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Alvin Toffler’s The Third Wave

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  1. Alvin Toffler’s The Third Wave Amanda L. Darlington Time Line Educational Technology 7100

  2. Toffler’s Three Waves Timeline Strands/Color Codes • Strand 1:  Toffler's three waves, and the fourth wave if you believe we have entered one • Strand 2:  Technology:  Key advances and innovations for each decade • Strand 3:  Work:  Business and corporate philosophies by decade • Strand 4:  Education:  Important Theories of learning and instruction by decade • Strand 5:  Society and culture:  Events that determined the thinking of each decade • Strand 6: Literature: Great books from each decade • *Hyperlinks to additional resources are in light blue

  3. Toffler’s Three Waves

  4. The First Wave: The Agricultural Age • Time Frame: 1600 - 1700 • Families:  extended • Business/Work: family business; agriculture • Transportation:  foot/horse • Communication:  face to face • Education:  Oral, limited books; multiage groups; or home schooling

  5. The Second Wave: The Industrial Age • Time frame: 1700 - 1950 • Family: nuclear • Business/Work: top down bureaucracies; factories • Transportation:  automobiles, planes • Communication: face to face • Education:  books, videos, filmstrips; grouped by ages and grades

  6. The Third Wave: The Information Age • Time frame: 1950-Present • Family:  one parent; two working parents • Business/Work:  collaborative teamwork; flexible hours and locations • Transportation:  automobile, planes • Communication:  computers, cell phones, computer to computer • Education:  digital, hyper kids, internet

  7. 1900-1910 • 1900 John Dewey believed that humans use truth to solve problems and learning is active. • 1901: Steel: J.P. Morgan merged the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses to form the first billion dollar corporation in America.

  8. 1902: The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad • 1903: The Wright Brothers flew the first controlled airplane near Kitty Hawk, N.C.

  9. 1903: The Call of the Wildby Jack London

  10. 1904: Classical Conditioning: The first type of learning to be discovered in the early 1900's. Ivan Pavlov played a key role in the development of classical conditioning. • 1908: Mass Production: Henry Ford built the automobile using a method of mass production called the assembly line. Assembly Line

  11. 1910: Dewey published How We Think • 1910: Boy Scouts of America was incorporated in the United States. It is the largest youth organization in the world.

  12. 1911-1920 • 1911: A factory in New York caught fire killing an estimated 500 workers. The led to the beginning of strikes and labor unions. • 1911: The Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett

  13. 1911: Peter Pan and Wendy by J.M. Barrie • 1912: The Titanic sank

  14. 1912: The first Montessori school was opened in the U.S., in 1912 by Maria Montessori. • 1913: Edison created first films for classroom use.

  15. 1913 U.S. Department of Labor formed. • 1913: Henry Ford brought down the price of the Ford Model T with the use of the assembly line. The assembly increased the speed of the production of cars.

  16. 1916: Terman developed the American version of the Binet-Simon scale of Intelligence (IQ). • 1917: U.S. enters WWI

  17. 1920:19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. • 1920: KDKA: The first radio broadcast by a radio station.

  18. 1921-1930 • 1922: Thorndike began his connectionism theory. • 1923: Widespread Ku Klux Klan violence erupted in the United States.

  19. 1927: Television: America's new form of entertainment is invented. • 1929: Piaget developed the stages of cognitive development for children ages birth to eleven and up.

  20. 1929: Stock Market Crash: This day is known as Black Tuesday. • 1929: The Stock Market Crash and The Great Depression hits society.

  21. 1925: The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1929: The Sound and the Furyby William Faulkner

  22. 1931-1940 • 1932: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly. • 1932: Tolman developed sign language.

  23. 1932: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley • 1933: Wagner Act enacted to protect the rights of workers.

  24. 1933: Franklin Roosevelt creates New Deal Programs to put Americans back to work. • 1935: The Social Security Act

  25. 1938: Fair Labor Standards Act • 1938: Skinner introduces his theory of operant conditioning.

  26. 1939: The Grapes of Wrathby John Steinback

  27. 1941-1950 • 1945: Atomic bomb: The atomic bomb development was known as the Manhattan Project. It was used during World War II to make Japan surrender. • 1945: Peter Drucker published first concept of the corporation.

  28. 1945: Animal Farmby George Orwell

  29. 1946: Visual Materials: Edgar Dale created the Cone of Experience. Its purpose was for educators to provide a visual learning experience using materials. • 1948: Alex Osborne developed the concept of brainstorming.

  30. 1949: Ralph Tyler published the Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction.

  31. 1951-1960 • 1951: UNIVAC I: First computer made available for purchase. • 1951: The Catcher in the Ryeby J.D. Salinger

  32. 1952: Dr. Jonas Salk invented a successful vaccine for polio. • 1953: DNA discovered by Watson and Crick.

  33. 1954: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

  34. 1954: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Brown vs. The Board of Education case in favor of Brown. The court rules that separate but equal is unconstitutional.

  35. 1955: Martin Luther King, Jr. leads the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Birmingham, Alabama. This was after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.

  36. 1956: Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives includes six levels of knowledge. • 1958: Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) was developed to complete complex projects.

  37. 1960: Laser: Theodore Maiman invented the first working laser. • 1960: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  38. 1961-1970 • 1962: The idea of the internet was developed by Carl Robnett Licklider of MIT • 1962: Vygotsky published his work on social development theory.

  39. 1962: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nestby Ken Kesey • 1963: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

  40. 1963: Equal Pay Act • 1963: The Keller Plan

  41. 1963: Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his famous "I Have a Dream Speech."

  42. 1964: The Beatles make their debut on the Ed Sullivan show.

  43. 1966: Bruner developed Constructivist theory. • 1969: Man on the Moon: Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.

  44. 1970: Problem Solving Learning: This is where small groups work collaboratively to solve problems.

  45. 1971-1980 • 1971: NASDAQ opens as world's first electronic stock market. • 1971: Invention of the Microprocessor.

  46. 1973: The Princess Brideby William Goldman

  47. 1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen forms Microsoft to write computer software. • 1978: First test-tube baby born.

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