History of Technology in Education and Tools

By eweathersbee

  • Wooden Rods for calculating

    Mathematician John Napier uses wooden rods for calculating. This method was called Napier's Bones.

  • Thomas Ediston Prediction

    Thomas Edison predicted that "the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and ... in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks."

  • Official First Electronic Computer

    John V. Atanasoff creates what is considered the official first electronic computer. It is known as the Alanasoff Berry Computer or simply ABC.

  • William Levenson claims

    William Levenson, the director of the Cleveland public schools' radio station, claimed that "the time may come when a portable radio receiver will be as common in the classroom as is the blackboard."

  • OVerheads are used with Military and will follow into classrooms in 1953

  • At Cambridge University Maurice Wilkes assembles the first practical stored program computer called the EDSAC.

  • At Cambridge University Maurice Wilkes assembles the first practical stored program computer called the EDSAC.

  • Overheads start making way into classrooms. stay popular until 1990

  • The first commercial modem called Dataphone is desiged by Bell Labs. It was designed specifically for converting digital computer data to analog signals for transmission across a long distance network.

  • The computer-to-computer communication revolution expands when the Department of Defense establishes four devices on the ARPAnet. Two of these nodes reside at University of California campuses including one in Santa Barbara and another in Los Angeles. A

  • * The 8-inch flobby disk is invented by a team at IBM’s San Jose Laboratories. * Also in 1971 one of the first personal computers called the Kenbak-1 is advertised for $750 in Scientific American magazine.

  • Apple is established on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne to sell a single board computer called the Apple I.

  • IBM introduces its Personal Computer (PC), kicking off the fast growth of the personal computer market and revolution.The first portable computer is also completed by Adam Osborne. Like many inventions of the day it gets its name from the inventor and it

  • Apple Computer launches the Macintosh which is the first successful mouse driven computer with a GUI. It was launched in fact with a single $1.5 million commercial during the 1984 Super Bowl.

  • Philips introduces the CD-ROM. I am Born!!!!

  • The World Wide Web (WWW) is born after researcher Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML, the Hypertext Markup Language.

  • Interactive whiteboards start developing

  • Yahoo is founded by two Stanford graduate students named Jerry Yang and David Filo. Fun Fact - Yahoo originally started out with the name Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web.

  • Microsoft releases the first mainstream 32-bit operating system Windows 95 in huge numbers.Classroom Connect offers educational WebQuests for classrooms all over the world.

  • * Google is co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they are students at Stanford University. The company is first incorporated as a privately held company in September of 1998. * Microsoft releases Windows 98. * Intel releases their Cel

  • * Microsoft releases Windows Millennium Edition or Me, and Windows 2000. * The 1GHz milestone is hit when both Intel and AMD introduce processors running at 1GHz.NEATscape version 5.0 is released. Under the "decrypting wizard" button anyone can us

  • Every museum and historical site sponsors its own online field trip.

  • Apple releases its third generation iMac in teal with a built-in microphone. Sudents take it to class, and it records the lecture so that the student can organize the lecture to meet his/her learning style.

  • PaperGraderXPress, a wand-like, wireless device, which reads and analyzes any type of student composition, typed or hand-written.--A new PLATO satellite system, in which students have small handheld devices which they carry with them to and from school.

  • -Prometheus, the first virtual World University, opens.--The laptop computer merges with the student's notebook and textbooks to create the Interactive Textbook. --Books are published in a dual format -- Opti-books --, which can be read as print books,

  • Stated that 1 in every 7classrooms has a interactive whiteboard of some kind.

  • --Personal Access and Display Device appears.--Introduction of the first fully automated classroom.

  • Flip Cameras start appearing.

  • --The e-Trapper is introduced as the "all-in-one school tool."--The Internet is accessed entirely through wireless, handheld, pocket computers.--Email is replaced by video letter systems.--The first widespread use of electronic textbooks in US schools.

  • --Trieger Industries announces TalkTech, a revolutionary, voice-activated technical assistant that can troubleshoot any technology-related problem. --Using BK3 Technology at speeds of 2.0 megs/second, consumers now purchase and rent digital films and musi

  • 2020 --Lamplighter School students use Logo to program a robotic teacher's aide. --AT&T introduces Desktop Learning.--The Individual Student Computer Automated Desk is introduced.--Virtual reality is the phase of the Internet.--Students will learn about h

  • Apple introduces the Granny Smith III, which is worn on the head.

  • Holographic teaching.