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James Pillans, headmaster and geography teacher at the Old High School in Edinburgh, Scotland, is credited with inventing the first modern blackboard when he hung a large piece of slate on the classroom wall. Wıth this invention, teaching got easier many years ago.
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Radio entered to the educational system. Like the early days of film, radio was heralded as a tool that would revolutionize classroom teaching and it was good for listening activites.
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In the 1930’s the overhead projector was widely used by the U.S. Military to train forces during World War II and eventually the device spread to schools. It was a beneficial tool to use in the clasrooms at the time.
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While historians agree that the whiteboard was invented sometime in the late ’50s to early ’60s, they did not truly take over as successors to the blackboard until the ’70s. Early whiteboards were not significantly easier to clean than blackboards, requiring a wet cloth to remove the ink. It wasn’t until 1975, when Jerry Woolf invented a non-toxic type of dry ink, that whiteboards really took off in popularity. It is easier to write onto this board rather than the black one.
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PLATO (Programmed Logic For Automated Teaching Operations) was a generalized computer assisted instruction system developed at the University of Illinois, and, by the late 1970s, comprised several thousand terminals worldwide on nearly a dozen different networked mainframe computers. PLATO was a highly successful system, lasting almost 40 years, and incorporated key on-line concepts: forums, message boards, online testing, e-mail, chat rooms, instant messaging, multi-player games and so on.
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Computers were first used in education in the 1960s in a way that was intended to individualize instruction. This method became known as computer assisted instruction (CAI). That was also the year in which televisions were used firstly in education. Thanks to the visuals they provide, learning and teaching in classrooms were getting more and more effective.
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Video cassette recorders were introduced by Japan Victor Company in 1977. Thanks to these kind of cassettes, learners and teachers were able to record their voices or anything else and then listen what they record later.
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CD Roms were developed by an Japanese company Denon in 1980s. With the advent of CDs, some educational games could be played and various songs or activities could be listened in the classrooms. It made the learning environment more enjoyable.
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With the advent of internet, web enabled the development of the first learning management systems. Internet, as known by everyone, has a great impact on education as it is in all the other areas. Thanks to internet, learners or teachers had an easy access to information and they were able to share these informations . Also, communication improved and contributed to the learning and teaching in various ways.
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They allow storage of larger amounts of digital data than CDs, which makes possible superior sound and visual performance. Through this technology, more data can be stored and used in education while teaching espeacially to the young learners.
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The advent of internet has also changed almost everyhing in education as well as our daily lifesytle. Nowadays, we have an ability to be able to access anything easily thanks to the digital world. Therefore, in classrooms, teachers can manage the time more effevtively and can help their learners learn via technology using some tools like smartboards, applications and so on. Due to these, teaching and learning systems have been evolved to a great extent.
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https://www.slideshare.net/PabloRuggiero/history-of-educational-technology-ppt
http://institute-of-progressive-education-and-learning.org/a-history-of-education-technology
https://resilienteducator.com/classroom-resources/the-history-of-the-classroom-blackboard/#:~:text=In%201801%2C%20the%20rather%20obvious,slate%20on%20the%20classroom%20wall. -
