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School Museums
The first school museum was opened in St.Louis, Missouri. Other musuems were soon opened in Reading, PA and Cleveland, OH. All the artifacts in these museums were seen as supplementary materials to the cirriculum. -
Instructional Fims
The first motion picture projector was put into schools recently. This brought the first publication of a catalog of instructional films. -
National Organizations
Instructional media continued to grow as five national professional organizations were created for visual instruction. Also, five journal publications and more than twenty teacher-training institutions were established focusing on visual instruction. -
WW II: Training Films
With World War II underway, the United States Army and Air Force produced more than 400 training films and 600 film strips. From 1943 until 1945 there were more than 400 million training film showings in the United States. -
Educational Television
The Federal Communication Comission decided to set aside 242 television channels for educational purposes. This was the beginning of "public" or later educational television programs. -
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation decided to focus its support on public television in general, rather than on in-school applications of insturctional television. Many school districts ended the funding of instructional television projects. -
Shift to Eductional and Insturctional Technology
The terms audiovisual iinsturction shifted to educational and instructional technology in regards to the application of medial for insturctional purposes. This shift brought even more of a focus on the application through education and new technology. -
Computer Education
By this time, the first micro-computers had become available to the general public and public interest in computers began to grow. Computers were being used for insturctional purposes in more than 40% if all elementary schools and more than 75% of secondary schools in the United States. -
Minimal Impact
Although most schools on average had one computer per nine students, surverys showed that computers had minimal impact on education. Many teachers reported that computers were not used for insturction purposes most of the time, but rather for drilling, practice, and processing. -
Technology Rates Grow
Surveys showed that new techologies such as CD-ROMs, intranets and internet usage grew from 6% to 9% in the late 1990s. Experts predicted that this number would reach 22% by 2000.
