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The first school museum was opened in St. Louis. In the U.S, the use of media for instruction starts from the existence of school museums.
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In 1910, the public school system in NY first adopted instructional films for regular instructional use.
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Five national professional organizations for visual instruction were established during 1914 and 1923
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In the 1920s, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began broadcasting educational radio programs for schools
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Using desktop systems, classroom teachers began control instructional and administrative applications from district data-processing offices.
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WWII is the origins of instructional design procedures
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Radio and TV in education
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In the early 1950s, computer-assisted instruction(CAI) was developed by IBM, and used in the public schools
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Dale’s Cone of Experience is a visual model that is composed of eleven stages starting from concrete experiences at the bottom of the cone, then it becomes more abstract as it reaches the peak of the cone.
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By the early 1970s, the term educational technology and instructional technology began to replace audiovisual instruction to describe the application of media for instructional purposes.
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In the 1980s, computers were wide-spread as an instructional tool in schools.
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In the mid-1990s, the Internet tremendously impacted culture and commerce, including the field of education. There has been a significant increase in the amount of technology available in schools in the United States.
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From 2000, enrollment in distance education courses increased rapidly in almost every country
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During mid-2000s, blackberry, Symbian system were popular around the world. Smart phone take a main place in people’s life. In 2007 and 2008, the release of ISO and Android system started a new age of smartphone usage.
