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Ballpoint pens were used
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Chalkboard slates were the first things we used to write and chalkboards were always found in classrooms
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Pencils were always found in American common classrooms
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Olive pencils were found in American classrooms
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The first film projector was put into a classroom
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Overhead projectors were used in most classrooms
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52% if schools were using silent films and 3% were using films with sound
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The first TV appears in a classroom in LA
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Ballpoint pens were usually found in classrooms
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Mimiogram was the first ox machine
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Headphones became popular in school language labs
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Typewriters were first used in schools
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BASIC is developed at Dartmouth College with the intent of giving students a simple programming language that is easy-to-learn
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Handheld calculators were invented and used in classrooms
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Scantrons were make to make grading faster
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The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium is founded. The organization popularizes school software such as Oregon Trail, and Lemonade Stand.
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Computers were used in classrooms
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Apple Macintosh computer is introduced. The ratio of computers to students in US schools is 1-92
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Handheld graphing calculators were popular in classrooms
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Touch typing software Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is developed and popularized in schools
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Laptops are introduced and are eventually utilized as teaching tools
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CD-ROMs became a predominant form of storage
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The first SMART interactive whiteboards were used in a classroom
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SMART response ie was used in classrooms
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According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), about 99% of American public schools have Internet access. About 35% had Internet access in 1994
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Netbooks are used in classrooms
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Ipads are still used in classrooms
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90% of students under the age of 18 have access to mobile technology