dipity

From 1900 to the present

Created by edukismet on Dec 18, 2010

Last updated: 12/21/10 at 09:14 AM

Tags: education technology communication agriculture information digital

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Dec 21, 2010 9:11 AM

• Apple Launches the iPad
  Apr 2010

  
  http://www.apple.com/ipad/

• Future Shock discussed
  2002

  Fellow futurists revisit Alvin Toffler's Future Shock theories
  http://www.metafuture.org/articlesbycolleagues/RichardSlaughter/futureshock.htm

• Toffler's 4th wave- Communication Technology
  2000 to 2050

  video conferencing, video phones, e-readers, portable technologies, holographic communication
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12940322/ns/business-forbescom

• Calculators in the Classroom
  1970

  Calculators in the classroom have generated much discussion and debate about the impact of this tool in math education
  http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/Topics/calculators.html#calc

• Overhead Projector
  1960

  The overhead projector ushered in multimedia tools in the class, offices and business.
  http://www.ehow.com/about_6406261_background-information-overhead-projectors.html

• Tofffler's 3rd wave- Harvard-Mark 1
  1944

  A precursor to a computer, the Harvard Mark 1, was "a room-sized, relay-based calculator"
  http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr

• Television introduced
  1939

  Television presented at World's Fair by RCA
  http://framemaster.tripod.com/1939wf.html

• Radio Broadcast
  1920

  First radio broadcast in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dt20ra.html

• Business and Corporate Developments
  1900 to 2010

  credit cards FAFSA online applications
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/view/#rest

• Educational Theories of Learning & Instruction
  1900 to 2010

  compulsory education home schooling television in the classroom zone of proximal development e-learning discussion forums, collaborative learning multiple intelligence/emotional intelligence
  http://www.learning-theories.com/vygotskys-social-learning-theory.html

• Nature of Society & Culture
  1900 to 2010

  events that influenced societal behavior and thinking- Political debates http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=kennedy-nixon
  http://www.museum.tv/debateweb/html/equalizer/essay_polyprocesstv.htm

• Technology
  1900 to 2010

  technological innovations that impacted society- education
  http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/multimedia-classroom

• Toffler's 2nd wave - Morse/Vail telegraph register, 1844
  1844

  experimental message sent via telegraph between Washington, DC and Baltimore, Maryland
  http://photo2.si.edu/infoage/infoage.html

• Toffler's 2nd Wave- Invention of the Cotton Gin
  1793

  Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin automated a human-intensive labor.
  http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/cotton_gin.htm

• A.Toffler's Three Waves
  800 AD to 1990

  The three waves of development: 1. the agricultural age 800B.C - mid -1700s 2. industrial age 1650- 1955 3. information age 1955-1990 http://www.alvintoffler.net/?fa=bios
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb643297.aspx