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History of Education Technology

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  • Scrolled Manuscripts
    1200 BCE

    Scrolled Manuscripts

    They were handwritten documents or books written by monks in the times before printing was invented.
  • Abacus
    300 BCE

    Abacus

    It is the most primitive form of calculating device, invented somewhere between 300-500 BC.
  • Gutenberg's Printing Press
    1440

    Gutenberg's Printing Press

    The printing press had dramatic effects on European civilization.It spread information quickly. This created a wider literate public.
  • Hornbooks

    Hornbooks

    A single page containing the alphabet, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read
  • School Slates and Blackboards

    School Slates and Blackboards

    By the nineteenth century, writing slates were used around the world in nearly every school. Their larger version Blackboards are still used in classrooms today.
  • Radios

    Radios

    With the advent of radio as a mass communication medium in the 1920s, many universities applied for broadcast licenses. This allowed educators a very economical means of information dissemination and permitted them to reach large numbers of students.
  • Overhead Projectors

    Overhead Projectors

    Since the transparency can be pre-printed and used repetitively, rather than having materials written manually before each class, they were quite time saving materials.
  • Headphones

    Headphones

    Repetition of information through headphones gave rise to the language labs.
  • Skinner's Teaching Machine

    Skinner's Teaching Machine

    It provided automatic, immediate and regular reinforcement without the use of aversive control; the material presented was coherent, yet varied; the pace of learning could be adjusted to suit the individual.
  • Photocopier

    Photocopier

    The photocopier changed the process of document reproduction. Its automatic function immensely saved time when preparing lesson materials to disperse to students.
  • TV

    TV

    Television, is one of the effective media in distance education by its characteristics like widespread coverage of audience and transmitting the knowledge to big audience mass.
  • Handheld Calculator

    Handheld Calculator

    In most countries, students use calculators for schoolwork. There was some initial resistance to the idea out of fear that basic or elementary arithmetic skills would suffer.
  • Computers

    Computers

    As computers have become more accessible, inexpensive, and powerful, the demand for this technology has increased, leading to more frequent use of computer resources within classes.
  • Internet

    Internet

    For educational purposes, it is widely used to gather information and to do research or add to the knowledge of various subjects.
  • Whiteboards

    Whiteboards

    They became more common in classrooms during the 1990s due to concerns over health problems in children with dust allergies and the potential for chalk dust to damage computers.
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