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The traces of education go back to 30.000 B.C.E. when people carve rocks, tablets and many other metarials to convey their thoughts to the next generetions. Specialists demonstrate that these drawings can be originate from religios, artistic and educational purposes. -
In 510 B.C.E. Pythagoras found the first formal education system. By gathering people who were interested in education in Ancient Greek, he gave oral lectures about many subjects such as physics, mathematics and philosophy. -
Cai Lun, director of imperial workshop in Luoyang, invented first paper by soaking and drying the plant fibres. After this breakthrough, the written records of history prevailed and usages of paper started to expand through many fields as education, art and political purposes. -
The very first printing press was invented in Germany arounf 1440s by Johannes Gutenberg. As you can guess, this invention change the world in many aspects and paved the way for printed books that would used in education nearly all over the world after a few centuries. -
In the years 1600, occured an urge and demand for public education worldwide. Starting with the first compulsory education law in Massachussets when they are a Britsh colony in 1642. Following this law, many other states and countries enact smilar laws. -
Chalkboard was invented in 1700s and used at nearly every schools for note taking. -
Printed books became widespread in schools in 1800s thanks to the advances of printing technology. -
At the beginning of the 1920s, researches conducted on radio for education in schools. In 1924, BBC aired the first radio broadcast for adult education. -
The film strip projector was invented during in 1925 to early 1930s and since then, it became one of the frequently used technological tool in education. -
Firstly invented by Sidney L. Pressey in 1920s teaching machines developed by B.F. Skinner in 1950s and started to sow the seeds of computer based/assisted learning strategies. -
In 1960s to 1970s international agencies such as UNESCO and World Bank tried to unite the whole world with education via televisions. Actually, they succeded to air lectures but because not everyone has equal income and opportunity for education, the system soon collapsed. -
Starting to being developed by Illınois University by 1960s to 1970s, PLATO, Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations, had been effective for almost 40 years. Therefore; this technology can be concluded as a huge contribution to the advancement of computer assisted technologies. -
In the years of 1980s, satallites emerged and became popular, however this popularity could not reach a immense audience just as the case of Television for Education. -
PowerPoint was first launched in 1987, and since then has became one of the most used presentation and education tool even today and probably will be in the future as well. -
The first ever smartboard was invented by David Martin and Nancy Knowlton in 1987 after their invention they decided to colloborate with a company which is Smart Technologies and under that company in 1991 the first smartboard officially launched. Smartboards in todays education system, are still an indispensible tool in classrooms for both teachers and students. -
The WWW was officially launced in 1971. After this advancement in technology online world has opened its doors for almost all the aspects of humanity, one of them surely is education and has so many shapes and ways since then. -
LMS - Learning Management System- was created in 1995 and offered a wide access for online forms, assignments also enabled the first online lessons. LMS was a very efficient and useful way for online education untill 2008 when a superior system launched. -
Started being avaible since early 2000s, laptops are a huge part of our century and without doubt education worldwide. -
Youtube is a video platform created in 2005. Youtube is a extensive tool that you can find whatever you want to watch and one of them is educational videos of a various diversity of content. -
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