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Technology in the classroom

By Schalen

  • Radios

    Radios
    Classrooms begin incorporating radios into penmanship, accounting, history and arithmetic lessons

  • Overhead projectors

    Overhead projectors
    Initially they were used for US military training and quickly spread to schools

  • Silent Films

    Silent Films
    52% of schools are using silent films and 3% are using films with sound

  • Television

    Television
    First TV appears in an LA classroom

  • Headphones

    Headphones
    Started becoming popular language labs in school

  • BASIC

    BASIC
    Developed at Dartmouth College with the intent of giving students a simple programming language that is easy to learn

  • Calculator

    Calculator
    Texas Instruments develops the handheld calculator

  • Scantrons

    Scantrons
    Used to automatically grade multiple choice tests

  • The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium

    The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium
    The organization popularizes school software such as Lemonade Stand and Oregon Trail (1974)

  • APPLE Macintosh Computer

    APPLE Macintosh Computer
    The ratio of computers to students in US schools is 1-92

  • Touch Typing

    Touch Typing
    Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is developed and popularized in school

  • Laptops

    Laptops
    Laptops are introduced and utilized as teaching tools

  • CD-ROMs

    CD-ROMs
    Become a predominant form of storage

  • Smart Boards

    Smart Boards
    Schools are introduced to Smart Boards

  • Internet Access

    Internet Access
    According to NCES about about 35% have internet access (1994) 99% of schools have internet access (2002)

  • IPAD

    IPAD
    1.5 million Ipads are used in US schools