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http://www.ul.ie/~philos/vol1/dewey.html
Dewey Experimental lab school where teachers has two main functions: guide students through complexities of life and give them opportunities to learn in the natural way (solving relevant problems), and enable students to cope adequately with contemporary conditions and cope with new tasks. -
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1900-1909.html
The Oxford English Dictionary letters “A” to “H” are published -
http://www.dreammoods.com/dreaminformation/dreamtheory/freud.htm
Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams -
http://tip.psychology.org/thorn.html
Thorndike's Theory of Connectionism - Learning theory represents S-R framework of behavioral psychology. Theory’s three primary laws: law of effect, law of readiness, and law of exercise. -
http://www.fathom.com/feature/122236/index.html
Nobel Prize First Awarded - won by the Curies and Becquerel for their work on radium and radioactivity, by Koch who identified the bacillus causing tuberculosis and by Pavlov for his work on the digestive system -
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/wright.htm First Flight in Kitty Hawk - Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina
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http://www.radarworld.org/huelsmeyer.htmlChristian Hulsmeyer in Duesseldorf, Germany, applied for a patent for his 'telemobiloscope' on the 30th April 1904, which was a transmitter-receiver system for detecting distant metallic objects by means of electrical waves. It was the first radar system used in shipping.
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http://www.macktrucks.com/default.aspx?pageid=254
Mack Brothers Company mounted a cab ove rthe engine. This increased visability of the driver, which made it easier to manuever. -
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/baekeland.htmlLeo Baekeland in 1907 invented the first synthetic polymer. He mixed the disinfectant carbolic acid (phenol) and formaldehyde.
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http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ford.htm
Henry Ford mass produced the model T car in 1908 through an assembly line process. The car originally sold for $825.00 but Ford was abe to drop the price to $575.00. -
http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/montessori2.html
Maria Montessori – Montessori Method. Theory says teacher must pay attention to the child, rather than the child paying attention to the teacher, child proceeds at own pace in an environment controlled to provide means of learning, Imaginative teaching materials are the heart of the process, and enable student to proceedat own pace. -
http://pseudo-intellectual.com/?p=418
Tarzan of the Apes - written by Edgar Rice Burroughs -
http://homepages.bw.edu/~rdensmor/BriefHistory/index.htmlThomas Edison invented the Edison Diamond Disc phonograph in the later part of 1912. It was considered the finest acoustic phonograph developed up to that time.
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http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong
Edwin Howard Armstrong invented the regenerative circuit which was patented 1914. This patent was later claimed by Lee De Forest -
http://www.ford.com/about-ford/heritage/milestones/5dollaraday/677-5-dollar-a-day
Henry Ford institutes $5 a day and 8 hour work day. He was addressing attrition in the work force. -
http://www.colby.edu/personal/r/rmscheck/GermanyC1.html
Worls War I - 1914-1918 - World War I marked the dramatic beginning of the end of European predominance over the globe -
http://earlyradiohistory.us/1915ATT2.htm
Radio-telephone carries voice from Virginia to the Eiffel Tower, Paris - on three different occasions recently, and particularly on the evening of Oct. 20 last. On that memorable date the human voice was projected across the Atlantic for the first time in history, and "Hellos" and "Good-byes" spoken in Arlington were heard and understood in the French capital, 8,800 miles from the point of transmiss -
http://www.answers.com/topic/adamson-act
The SUpreme Court upheld the Adamson Act in 1917. The Act set an eight hour work day as the regular work day with the requirement for additional pay if longer hours were worked. -
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1910-1919.html
The Uncle Sam I Want You poster brings thousands of recruits to World War I -
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4954/
Kilpatrick's Project Method - teachers position student at center of learning process with activities focused around interests of student. -
http://www.jacweb.org/Archived_volumes/Text_articles/V14_I1_Holt.htm
Washburne & Parkhurst - Individualized Instruction Plans -
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http://www.1920-30.com/business/executive-rewards.html
General Motors Executives to become Special Partners annouced in 1924. This would allow executives to be able to gain interest in the company. -
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/14/111721/366/266/436037
Installment consumer credit allowed indiviudals to purchase consumer goods without having to wait until the cash was in hand. -
http://www.decentfilms.com/reviews/benhur1925.html
Ben Hur - An epic movie -
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=89281
Charlie Chaplin’s film The Gold Rush -
http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/recording/loudspeaker.html
Chester W. Rice and Edward W. Kellogg at General Electric established basic principle of the direct-radiator loudspeaker with a small coil-driven mass-controlled diaphragm in a baffle with a broad midfrequency range of uniform response in a research paper in 1925. -
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Random-House-Inc-Company-History.html
Random House begins book publication - The 27-year-old Cerf and his 23-year-old partner had purchased the 109-volume Modern Library line in 1925 for $215,000 from the Boni & Liveright publishing firm in New York. When Bennett A. Cerf and Donald S. Klopfer decided to rename their joint publishing venture Rando -
http://inventors.about.com/od/xzstartinventors/a/Zworykin.htmVladamir Kosma Zworykin invented the cathode ray tube in 1929. This was very needed for the television.
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http://tip.psychology.org/piaget.html
Piaget - Child's Conception of the World. There are four primary cognitive structures:sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, and formal operations. -
http://bobcat74.free.fr/mmds/mmdsnotes.htm
Movie cartoon character Mickey Mouse gets a comic strip -
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/04/dayintech_0420
Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invented the electron microscope in 1931. The instrument had a resolution of only 400x -
http://www.acepilots.com/earhart.html
Amelia Earhart - Second person to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932 -
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/flsa1938.htm
1933 "New Deal" program - Roosevelt's advisers developed a National Industrial Recovery Act (NRA). Suspension of antitrust laws. This helped industries in that it resulted in less competition. -
http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/fdroosevelt/essays/biography/4
FDR begins radio Fireside Chats, bypasses hostile newspapers -
http://www.coe.uh.edu/courses/cuin6373/idhistory/8year.html
Ralph Tyler's - The Eight-Year Study Plan - sought to determine if students completing alternative high school curricula could succeed in college -
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/10.html
Joesph Begun invented the first tape recorder for broadcasting in 1934. -
http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/06/depression-innovation-research-leadership-managing-mckinsey.html
DuPont R&D was slow in the 1930's except for 1934 & 1935. During this time DuPont choose carefully when and how to invest in R&D. -
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/flsa1938.htm
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 banned child labor and set a minimum wage of 25 cents. -
http://tip.psychology.org/guthrie.html
Edwin Gutherie – Continguity Theory - combination of stimuli which has accompanied a movement will on its recurrence tend to be followed by that movement. -
http://emol.org/movies/bugsbunny/
Bugs Bunny cartoons - Bugs Bunny cartoon series, from Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies, were produced by Warner Bros -
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/zuse.html
Konrad Zuse completes the Z3 in 1941, which is the first programmable computer. -
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~socy/pdfs/MDD_Limit_Labor_07.pdf
American Federation of Labor made a pledge that there would not be any strikes in the defense-related industries during the rest of the war. -
http://www.pearl-harbor.com/
Pearl Harbor Attack - Japanese warplanes swooped out of a cloudless sky and demolished the US Pacific fleet docked at Pearl Harbor. It was this single catastrophic event, not the invasion of Poland, the Battle of Britain or the persecution of the Jews, that finally dragged the United States into World War II -
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa050898.htm
John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer in 1942. "I have always taken the position that there is enough credit for everyone in the invention and development of the electronic computer" - John Atanasoff to reporters. -
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1940-1949.html
Supreme Court reverses, offers movies some First Amendment protection -
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade40.html
Due to War issues, married women were permitted to help fill the vacantcies due to men in combat in 1943 since most single women were already employed. -
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http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1661.html
World War II ended on Spetember 1945. The number of people killed in WWII is estimated at more than 55 million people. -
http://www.willatworklearning.com/2006/05/people_remember.html
Edgar Dale - Cone of Experience - -
http://my-ecoach.com/project.php?id=12152&project_step=28184
Tyler's Basic Principles of Curriculum & Instruction - Tyler's thoughts on the relevance of behavioral objectives to the teaching process. four basic principles include: Defining appropriate learning objectives, Establishing useful learning experiences, Organizing learning experiences to have a maximum cumulative effect, and Evaluating the curriculum. -
http://tip.psychology.org/skinner.html
Skinner - The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching - based upon the idea that learning is a function of change in overt behavior - Changes in behavior are the result of an individual's response to events (stimuli) that occur in the environment -
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1950-1959.html
Disk jockey Alan Freed introduces the term rock ‘n’ roll -
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/ginsburg.html
CHarles Ginsburg invented the first video tape recorderin 1952. -
http://tip.psychology.org/wertheim.html
Max Wertheimer – Gestalt Theory - emphasized higher-order cognitive processes in the midst of behaviorism -
http://www.solarnavigator.net/guinness_book_of_world_records.htm
Guinness Book of Records - The first edition was published in 1955, commissioned by the Guinness brewery after a debate between its managing director Hugh Beaver and hunting partners over the fastest species of European gamebird could not be settled with existing reference books -
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/inventions-of-the-1950s.html
Narinder Singh Kapany invented the optic fiber in 1956. This is used in fiber-optic communication. -
http://www.netmba.com/operations/project/cpm/
Critical Path Method (CPM) - DuPont developed a project management method in 1957 that was designed to address the issues of stopping chemical plant production so maintenance could be completed and then resuming production. CPM provides 3 key aspects, a graphical view of project, prediction time requirement for completion, and identifies critical activities for maintaining schedule. -
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1716.html
Sputnik - Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. In a single stroke, this 184 pound object brought into question the United States' pre-eminence in science, industry, and military power -
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1716.html
Sputnik 2 - 250 pound Sputnik 2, which was launched on November 3, 1957 with the first dog to oribt the Earth, -
http://www.netmba.com/operations/project/cpm/
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was founded in the United States in 1958. The goal was to develop information technolgies that could survive a nuclear attack. -
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1765.html
Bay of Pigs - The Bay of Pigs invasion was intended to provoke popularity for an uprising against Fidel Castro, who had overthrown American-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Instead, it gave Castro a military victory and a permanent symbol of Cuban resistance to American aggression. -
http://inventors.about.com/od/audiowaxrecordstomp3/a/Cassette_Tape.htm
The Philips Company of the Netherlands invented and released the first compact audio-cassette in 1962. This utilized 1/8 inch polyester tape from BASF. -
http://quality-circles-history.blogspot.com/
First annual QC Conference for Foremen was held in 1962 -
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1736.html
Cuban Missle Crisis - brought the world close to a nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
http://tip.psychology.org/ausubel.html
David Ausubel – Subsumption Theory - individuals learn large amounts of meaningful material from verbal/textual presentations in a school setting -
http://cozumelrentalvillas.com/History-Cousteau.htm
Jacques Cousteau, The Living Sea - -
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/handcalculator.htm
Jack St. Clair Kilby, Jerry Merryman & James Van Tassel invented the first hand-held calcualtor in 1966. This occurred at Texas Instruments Incorporated. -
http://tip.psychology.org/gibson.html
James Gibson – Information Pickup Theory - perception depends entirely upon information in the "stimulus array" rather than sensations that are influenced by cognition. -
http://www.nola.com/star-trek/index.ssf/2009/05/the_star_trek_tv_show_and_movi.html
Star Trek television show - Television audiences are introduced to pointy-eared Vulcans, transporter beams and green-skinned women -
http://www.designboom.com/history/floppydisk.html
Floppy Disk was invented by Alan Shugart at IBM. Original floppy disks were 8-inch disks then evolved into 5.25-inch disks, and finally evolved into 3.5-inch disk. -
http://quality-circles-history.blogspot.com/
Union of Japanese Scienctists and Engineers (JUSE) dispatched the first QC Circle Study Team overseas in 1968 -
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20715.html
Congress bans tobacco ads in broadcasting - President Richard Nixon signed legislation banning cigarette ads from airing on television and radio. -
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/B.D.(Doonesbury)
Gerry Trudeau introduces Doonesbury - popular quarterback
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http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/microprocessor.htm
Faggin, Hoff and Mazor invented the microprocessor in 1971.It was introduced byh a company called Intel. -
http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=LLNfnTDrnm1QQnGqpj2Q5bPxhpvqQMWqwbSGDR01C21tqNhG4NRk!-522989652!-345831520?docId=5006777530
Nixon resigns due to watergate scandal -
http://www.suzuki-gokin.co.jp/eng/company/history.php
The Quality Control activity began in the Suzuki company in January of 1976 -
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/bandura.html
Albert Bandura – Social Learning Theory - the importance of observing and modeling the behaviors, attitudes, and emotional reactions of others. -
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/recording/motionpicture.html
Star Wars released in 46 U.S. theatres equipped for Dolby Stereo; Star Wars next spring won the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Sound -
http://www.corp.att.com/history/milestones.html
In Chicago, AT&T installs the first fiber optic cable in a commercial communications system -
http://tip.psychology.org/vygotsky.html
Vygotsky - Social Development Theory - social interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of cognition -
http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft7f59p19s&chunk.id=d0e3165&toc.id=d0e4289&brand=eschol;query=0
Quality Circle Quaterly appeared in 1978 in the second quarter of the year. The first issue contained background inforamtion about quality cirlces. -
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Pro-Res/Quality-Circles.html
over one-half of firms in the Fortune 500 had implemented or were planning on implementing quality circles by 1980 -
http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=pac-man&page=detail&id=1914
Pacman - pacman is chased by blinky, inky, pinky, and clyde, the four ghosts. -
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa033099.htm
MS-DOS was developed by Bill Gates for IBM. -
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Pro-Res/Quality-Circles.html
General Motors Corp. had established about 100 quality circles among its Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and Fisher Body divisions by early 1980's -
http://www.squidoo.com/CatsBwayMusical
Cats premiered on May 11, 1981 - . It was the hottest new musical! and many professional dancers wanted to get a part in Cats -
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/mtv/history.html
MTV premiered - Appropriately, the first music video shown on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles -
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa031599.htm
IBM introduced the personal computer with a 16 bit computer operating system in 1981. -
http://tip.psychology.org/gardner.html
Howard Gardner - Multiple Intelligences - there are a number of distinct forms of intelligence that each individual possesses in varying degrees -
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1980-1989.html
AT&T forced to break up; 7 Baby Bells are born -
http://tip.psychology.org/lave.html
Jean Lave – Situated Learning - learning is a function of the activity, context and culture in which it occurs. learners become involved in a "community of practice" which embodies certain beliefs and behaviors to be acquired. -
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/newsandevents/pressreleases/childrens_tv_act
Congress passes Children’s Television Act - place requirements that broadcasters devote three hours a week to children’s educational and informational programming while setting limits around advertising to children on television -
http://tip.psychology.org/spiro.html
R. Spiro, P. Feltovitch & R. Coulson - Cognitive Flexibility Theory - focuses on the nature of learning in complex and ill-structured domains. theory is largely concerned with transfer of knowledge and skills beyond their initial learning situation. -
http://tip.psychology.org/carroll.html
John Carroll – Minimalism - framework for the design of instruction includes: learning tasks should be meaningful and self-contained, learners should be given realistic projects, instruction should permit self-directed reasoning, training materials and activities should provide for error recognition and recovery, and close linkage between training and actual system should exist. -
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Pro-Res/Quality-Circles.html#ixzz0gm4DkYXS
U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled Electromation Inc. operated unlawful quality circles and employee involvment programs in 1992. -
http://www.scrumalliance.org/learn_about_scrum
Jeff Sutherland created the scrum process in 1993. He borrowed the term "scrum" from a study where the authors, Takeuchi and Nonaka, come the functionality of teams to the scrum formation utilized in Rugby. -
http://robot-club.com/lti/pub/ieee97.html
“Spiders” search the Internet looking for key words -
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Pro-Res/Quality-Circles.html#ixzz0gm4DkYXS
U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling against DuPont in 1993 for unlawful quality Cirlces. By this time these rulings were having an effect on companies by making them hesitant to institute new quality cirlces for fear of law suits. -
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/historyofie.mspx
Mosaic is renamed Netscape Navigator - Netscape Navigator was called "Mosaic Netscape" before a lawsuit forced a change of nam -
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1990-1999.html
M.I.T. student charged with wire fraud for file swapping system -
http://www.businessweek.com/1995/49/b34533.htm
Sun Microsystems Inc. designed Java computer language in 1995. This allowed program to run on any computer. -
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_web_tv.htm
WebTV was developed by Diba Inc and Zenith Electronics in 1996. Diba Inc and Zenith Electronics produced and marketed the first WebTV sets. -
http://www.mallenbaker.net/csr/CSRfiles/wbcsd.html
Corporate Social Responsibility: Making Good Business Sense published World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in 2000. -
http://opencontent.org/docs/dissertation.pdf
David Wiley - LODAS - Learning Object Design and Sequencing Theory - provides guidelines for the analysis
and synthesis of an undifferentiated content area the application produces specifications for the scope and sequence of learning objects. -
http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR2001/minirobot.htm
Mini autonomous robots invented by Ray Byrne, Ed Heller and Doug Adkins at Sandia National Laboratories . These tiny robots are 1/4 cubic inch in size and weigh less than one ounce. they are powered by three watch batteries and contain an 8K ROM processor, two motors, temperature sensor, and track wheels. -
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/napster.htm
Court limits Napster’s Internet file-sharing of music - Judge Marilyn Patel issued a revised injunction consistent with the February 12th decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in this case -
http://inventors.about.com/od/istartinventions/a/iPod.htm
Apple Computers publicly announced their portable music digital player, the iPod, The iPod was actually annouced after the introduction of iTunes. -
http://www.wowowow.com/entertainment/supreme-court-weighs-janet-jackson-wardrobe-malfunction-285438
Janet Jackson's “wardrobe malfunction” on TV leads to national uproar -
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/2000-2009.html
Animation Oscar: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were Rabbit -
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=108
YouTube - invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. YouTube is an online video sharing site where videos can be uploaded for any and all to see. -
http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Blended-learning
Charles Graham and Curtis Bonk - Blended Learning - combination of multiple approaches to learning such as the use of virtual and physical resources -
http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/1289409
Cloud computing - cloud computing is economic and scalable for organizations -
http://news.java-virtual-machine.net/5339.html
Scrum 2010 - the Agile event in New Zealand. This conference includes training sessions and workshops including Certified Scrum Master courses. -
