Highlights of Digital Technology and Education By d5vann Period: Jan 1, 1960 to Dec 31, 1969 Instructional Television Period: Jan 1, 1960 to Dec 31, 1970 University time-sharing systems housed on a mainframe computer - used by students and instructors to share computer programs Jan 1, 1977 First microcomputers entered schools (Roblyer & Edwards, 2000) Jan 1, 1994 Widespread use of the Internet begins Jan 1, 2008 Mobile technology enters classrooms in the form of mobile phones used to record data (Schrum & Levin, 2015) Jan 1, 2012 Cloud based applications replace costly on-site servers (Tomassini, 2012)
