History of Educational Technology

Karizza Jennifer JaroChatty 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 EgyptSpartan EducationAthenian Education

 

600 AD

Use of a quill pen

888 AD

Diamond Sutra was printed

1440

Johannes Gutenburg completed the printing press

1658

Orbis Pictus (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 filmsSidney Pressey’s teaching machines

 

1930s

Airing of first instructional TV16mm sound motion picture was developed

1940s

Movies, filmstrips, radio, and other pictorial devices were used in military trainingsInvention of Memex by Vanevar BushModern version of ball point pen was invented

1950s

Skinner’s Programmed InstructionBloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

1960s

Use of whiteboardUse of computers in schoolsSystems approach to designing instruction was introducedInstructional films became more creative and more accessibleLarge scale television availability

1970s

Proliferation of instructional design modelsDevelopment of needs assessment procedures

1980s

Digitized communication and networking in education startedCBI / CBT flourished

1990s

Hypertext and hypermedia influence the fieldLearning management systems (LMS) were used

2000s

Internet technologies are more integrated in the academeWeb 2.0 toolsWeb conferencing

The End

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