History of Educational Technology

History of Educational Technology Karizza Jennifer Jaro Chatty May Prado

3300 BC • Use of pointed sticks to inscript signs and symbols on leaves and bark of trees

3100 BC • Cuneiform in Mesopotamia was developed

3000 BC • Hieroglyphics and Papyrus in Egypt • Spartan Education • Athenian Education

600 AD • Use of a quill pen

888 AD • Diamond Sutra was printed

1440 • Johannes Gutenburg completed the printing press

1658 • OrbisPictus (The World in Pictures) by Johann Amos Comenius was published

1790 • Pencil was invented

1801 • Use of blackboards in academic military schools

1805 • Pestalozzi Method was developed

1826 • First permanent image using Camera Obscura

1840 • Froebel coined the word “kindergarten”

1884 • First proper fountain pen was invented

1907 • Maria Montessori’s Casa dei Bambini was established

1920s • Use of educational films • Sidney Pressey’s teaching machines

1930s • Airing of first instructional TV • 16mm sound motion picture was developed

1940s • Movies, filmstrips, radio, and other pictorial devices were used in military trainings • Invention of Memex by VanevarBush • Modern version of ball point pen was invented

1950s • Skinner’s Programmed Instruction • Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

1960s • Use of whiteboard • Use of computers in schools • Systems approach to designing instruction was introduced • Instructional films became more creative and more accessible • Large scale television availability

1970s • Proliferation of instructional design models • Development of needs assessment procedures

1980s • Digitized communication and networking in education started • CBI / CBT flourished

1990s • Hypertext and hypermedia influence the field • Learning management systems (LMS) were used

2000s • Internet technologies are more integrated in the academe • Web 2.0 tools • Web conferencing

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History of Educational Technology