Historical Evolution of the IDT Field

By rpadgett

  • IM: First School Museum Opens in St. Louis

    These museums were meant to supplement the textbook and included things such as charts, films, and instructional materials

  • IM: Keystone Company publishes "Visual Education"

    a teacher's guide to lantern slides and stereographs

  • IM: First Catalog of Instructional Films were Published

  • IM: Rochester Public Schools adopt films

    The public school system of Rochester, New York was the first school system to adopt films for regular instructional use
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    IM: Visual Instruction Movement Grows

    5 Professional Organizations established, 5 Journals established, and 20+ Teacher training institutions

  • IM: Merging of 3 National Professional Organizations for Visual Instruction

    Marked as one of the most significant events in the evolution of the audiovisual instruction movement and instructional radio.

  • IM: Federal Government Establishes Division of Visual Aids for War Training

    They produced 457 training films
  • Period: to

    IM: WWII Training Videos and Filmstrips

    During this time there were more than 400 films and 600 filmstrips used as training aids during WWII

  • IM: Federal Communications Commission sets aside 242 channels for educational purposes

  • ID: "The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching"

    written by B.F. Skinner, begins a minor revolution for the education field

  • IM: There are 17 educational television stations

  • ID: "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives"

    published by Benjamin Bloom and colleagues

  • ID: The Launch of Sputnik

    the launch of Sputnik made people realize that there were a lot of wasted resources in the time leading up to the launch of Sputnik. This brought forward formative evaluation and summative evaluation in the aftermath of the launch.

  • IM: There are 50 educational television stations

    the number of educational stations increased from 17 to 50 in just 5 years

  • ID: "Preparing Objectives for Programmed Instruction"

    written by Robert Mager

  • ID: The Criterion- Referenced Testing Movement

    Robert Glaser was first to coin the term "criterion-referenced measures."

  • ID: Publication of "The Conditions of Learning"

    written by Robert Gagné

  • ID: "Journal of Instructional Development" is first published

  • "Mind and Society" Compilation

    Vygotsky and Cole

  • IM: Computers are being used for instructional purposes

    ~ 40% of Elementary schools & ~75% of Secondary Schools

  • Howard Barrows developed a model

    this model was for centering instruction around a key statement of a problem, prompting a team- based inquiry and problem solving process

  • "Cognitive Apprenticeships"

    Collins, Brown, Newman

  • Newell and Simon's Unified Theories of Cognition was brought in to play

  • Journal for the Learning Sciences was started

  • Special Issue of "Educational Technology"

    this was devoted to constructivism

  • "Intentional Learning Environments"

    Scardamalia and Breiter

  • The Fostering Community of learners model for teaching Science is developed

    Brown and Campione

  • "REALs"

    Dunlap and Grabinger- rich environments for authentic learning

  • ID: Significant growth with online learning

    most of this online learning is with businesses, the military and school K-12th grade

  • "Ten Steps to Complex Learning"

    Van Marriënboer, Kirschner

  • IM: 30% of all trainings were done using technology