-
30,000 BCE
Cave Drawings
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. -
510 BCE
The First Formal Oral Education
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. -
105
The Invention of Paper in China
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. -
1440
The First Printing Press!
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. -
Public Education in Mediaval Age
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. -
Chalkboards
Chalkboard was invented in 1700s and used at nearly every schools for note taking. -
Books for Education
Printed books became widespread in schools in 1800s thanks to the advances of printing technology. -
Radio for Public Education
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. -
Vision of Learning: The First Projector
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. -
Teaching Machine!
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. -
Television for Education
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. -
A Brand New Technology in Education: PLATO
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. -
Satallite Broadcasting
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
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. -
Chalkboards to "Smartboards"
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. -
Connect The World: World Wide Web
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: The First Online Way of Education
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. -
Laptops are Everywhere!
Started being avaible since early 2000s, laptops are a huge part of our century and without doubt education worldwide. -
Youtube: Education is in Your Hand
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. -
IMAGES
Image by TymonOziemblewski / 25 images from Pixabay
Image by Tumisu / 1110 images from Pixabay
Image by Shotkitimages / 22 images from Pixabay
Image by StartupStockPhotos / 121 images from Pixabay
Image by britaseifert / 35 images from Pixabay
Image by Free-Photos / 9078 images from Pixabay
Image by Pexels / 9144 images from Pixabay
Image by Pexels / 9144 images from Pixabay
Image by anncapictures / 1392 images from Pixabay
Image by jarmoluk / 1463 images from Pixabay -
The References
http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Educational_technology#A_short_history
Bates A.W. (2015).Teaching in a Digital Age.Tony Bates Associates Ltd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFwWWsz_X9s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT-df_zdnfI -
The References
-
IMAGES
Image by Devanath / 903 images from Pixabay
Image by MichaelGaida / 5348 images from Pixabay
Image by zeeh / 24 images from Pixabay
Image by padrinan / 593 images from Pixabay
Image by tsuttles / 6 images from Pixabay
Image by hgenthe / 71 images from Pixabay