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The idea and practice of universal, compulsory public education developed gradually in Europe.
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Public schooling gradually evolved toward what we all recognize today as conventional schooling.
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Thomas Edison was working to expand his motion picture industry into education.
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The education technology landscape changed dramatically with Apple. Steve Jobs saw his first computer at Hewlett-Packard.
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Apple launched the Apple Classroom of Tomorrow (ACOT) research study. Over the next 10 years, they worked with school districts throughout the US and also the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study how the everyday use of technology might impact teaching and learning.
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By the early 2000s the world of technology in schools had changed. While the original KCW model provided free-standing and networked computers to classrooms, the Internet began to erode the very walls of the classrooms.