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The first wave began about 10,000 years ago as nomadic hunters and gatherers populated the planet. People lived in large families and began settling, domesticating animals, and herding cattle. With the development of tools the Agricultuarl Age began.
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The first wave began about 10,000 years ago as nomadic hunters and gatherers populated the planet. People lived in large families and began settling, domesticating animals, and herding cattle. With the development of tools the Agricultuarl Age began.
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The second wave included what we call the Industiral Revolution. It was a time when people moved into large cities, standardized materials were created and mass production became a reality.
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The second wave included what we call the Industiral Revolution. It was a time when people moved into large cities, standardized materials were created and mass production became a reality.
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Dewey sets up an experimental elementary school.
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Key technological advances and innovations for each decade
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The nature of work: Business and corporate philosophies
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Thomas Edison creates the first battery.
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Lie detector, or polygraph machine, was invented by James Mackenzie
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First movie appears. The first projection film with a plot is played when the 10 minute movie "The Great Train Robbery" is released.
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Wright Brothers complete their first airplane flight
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Maria Montessori began teaching students through self exploration and discovery.
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Model T first sold.
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Henry Ford's invention of the assembly line changes the world.
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Boy Scouts established.
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AT&T takes control of Western Union Telegraph Company.
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Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invent Pyrex.
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Louis M. Terman and his team of Stanford University graduate students complete an American version of the Binet-Simon Scale. The Stanford Revision of the Binet-Simon Scale becomes a widely-used individual intelligence test, and along with it, the concept of the intelligence quotient (or IQ) is born.
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Enigma machine created to encode messages at the end of WW1
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John Dewey's Democracy and Education. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education is published.
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The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company enters the Canadian market under the name of International Business Machines Co., Limited.
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Edwin Howard Armstrong invented the superheterodyne radio circuit which is inside of every TV and radio currently used.
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Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
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The International Council for Exceptional Children is founded at Columbia University Teachers College.
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First successful test of a television broadcast using a Naval Station to broadcast.
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Robert S. Ledley invented the first scanner. It was used to create x-ray scans for medical research.
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The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is first administered.
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Robert H. Goddard invents liquid fueled rockets.
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
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The Great Depression begins with the stock market crash
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First quartz clok invented
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Dick and Jane books first published.
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Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon.
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r. John H. Gibbon, Jr., first successful application of the heart-lung machine for extracorporeal circulation in an animal (cat).
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Bernard Fantus starts the first blood bank at Cook County Hospital in Chicago using a 2% solution of sodium citrate. Refrigerated blood lasted ten days.
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First TV debuts at World's Fair
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Frank W. Cyr, a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College, organizes a national conference on student transportation. It results in the adoption of standards for the nation's school buses, including the shade of yellow.
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The first mobile phone technology becomes available with police and emergency radios.
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The first electrical computer is introduced. Howard Aiken and IBM developed the first fully automatic 'electro-mechanical' machine capable of not only addition, but other functions such as multiplication, and trig functions as well. The machine was known as the "Harvard Mark I".
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The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
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The first Atomic Bomb is exploded on Hiroshima Japan
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Edgar Dale shares his "Cone of Experience" that visually shows teaching methods and materials
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In the landmark court case of Mendez vs. Westminster and the California Board of Education, the U. S. District Court in Los Angeles rules that educating children of Mexican descent in separate facilities is unconstitutional, thus prohibiting segregation in California schools.
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Cable TV is born. CATV (Community Antenna Television) is developed in the mountains of Pennsylvania.
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Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral.
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The third wave ushered in a plethora of information.This was a time when people were expermenting with new technologies and accessing information, not all accurate. There is more information available then people are able to process so new technologies to organize information began to appear.
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The third wave ushered in a plethora of information.This was a time when people were expermenting with new technologies and accessing information, not all accurate. There is more information available then people are able to process so new technologies to organize information began to appear.
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First video tape is recorded at Bing Crosby studios in California.
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The first patent for bar code issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver.
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B.R. Skinner's Science and Human Behavior is published. His form of behaviorism (operant conditioning), which emphasizes changes in behavior due to reinforcement, becomes widely accepted and influences many aspects of American education.
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Oral contraceptives invented.
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Rosa Parks, a Montgomery, Alabama seamstress, refuses to give up her seat on the bus a Caucasian passenger and is subsequently arrested and fined. The Montgomery bus boycott follows, giving impetus to the Civil Rights Movement. A year later, in the case of Browder v. Gale, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregated seating on buses unconstitutional.
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IBM debuts the first computer 'printer'. A dot-matrix printer.
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The USSR launched its first space ship called Sputnik.
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NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is founded.
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Jack St. Clair Kilby of Texas Instruments invented the first "integrated circuit" or "chip". a.
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The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
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The ACT Test is first administered.
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Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the first American to fly into space.
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Color Television becomes available. By the fall of 1964, NBC was broadcasting the majority of its programs in color.
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Samuel A. Kirk uses the term "learning disability" at a Chicago conference on children with perceptual disorders. The term sticks, and in 1964, the Association for Children with Learning Disabilities, now the Learning Disabilities Association of America, is formed. Today, nearly one-half of all students in the U.S. who receive special education have been identified as having learning disabilities.
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Soft contact lenses invented.
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Raskkind developed a low volume disposable pumpless bubble oxygenator for use as a substitute lung on children with cystic fibrosis, RDS, and CHD.
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Ralph Baer begins work on the first video game.
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The DoD (Department of Defense) developed ARPANET. They used this technology to allow various computers within different sections of the military and government that work on different systems to share information with one another. This is the first network. By the end of 1969, four host computers were connected together into the initial ARPANET. These computers were located at 4 colleges: UCLA, Stanford, University of California, and University of Utah.
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Herbert R. Kohl's book, The Open Classroom, helps to promote open education, an approach emphasizing student-centered classrooms and active, holistic learning. The conservative back-to-the-basics movement of the 1970s begins at least partially as a backlash against open education.
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Man first walks on the moon when astronaut Neil Armstrong sets foot on the lunar surface.
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Jean Piaget's book, The Science of Education, is published. His Learning Cycle model helps to popularize discovery-based teaching approaches, particularly in the sciences.
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A company named Intel produced the first 'micro-processor' which held its own arithmetic logic unit.
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The Rehabilitation Act becomes law. Section 504 of this act guarantees civil rights for people with disabilities in the context of federally funded institutions and requires accommodations in schools including participation in programs and activities as well as access to buildings. Today, "504 Plans" are used to provide accommodations for students with disabilities who do not qualify for special education or an IEP.
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IBM released the 8" floppy drive, and the first permanent storage with its first "Hard Drive."
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Introduction of computerized axial tomography, the "CAT-scanner."
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniack incorporate the Apple computer company.
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The tradename "Microsoft" is registered, and in December Bill Gates drops out of Harvard.
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AT&T completes it prototype of cell phone technology.
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The movie "Star Wars" is released, revealing special effects, and film technology never before seen by the general public.
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The artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik.
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The hepatitis-B vaccine invented.
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NASA launches the first space shuttle.
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The report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, A Nation at Risk, calls for sweeping reforms in public education and teacher training.
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IBM releases the IBM XT which sports a new 8086 16-bit processor and the ability to add the 8087 math co-processor.
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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified
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During the Superbowl, Apple displayed an ad that changed the world of the "computer wars". The ad, promoting the new "Macintosh" computer displayed many black and gray clone like people, dressed like IBM employees, going through life in a bored mindless way, and finishing up the commercial in vivid color of their new "Mac", and saying it was for "The rest of us."
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Hubble Space Telescope is launched into space.
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Educational theories of learning and instruction
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Nature of society and culture: What key events determined the thinking of the decade?
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The World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee developer is seen as the father of the "WWW."
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First vaccine developed for hepatitis A.
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Jacqueline and Martin Brooks' In Search of Understanding: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms is published. It is one many books and articles describing constructivism, a view that learning best occurs through active construction of knowledge rather than its passive reception. Constructivist learning theory, with roots such as the work of Dewey, Bruner, Piaget, and Vygotsky, becomes extremely popular in the 1990s.
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Whiteboards find their way into U.S. classrooms in increasing numbers and begin to replace the blackboard.
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Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone
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With Apple in deep financial trouble, and Microsoft in court litigation with Apple over copyright laws, Microsoft agrees to purchase 100,000 'non-voting' shares of Apple stock for approximately $150 Million. This keeps Apple out of bankruptcy, and gets Microsoft out of a monopoly lawsuit.
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First DVD released
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Intel releases the Pentium II chip.
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The fourth wave causes much discussion and differing points of view. Some see it as a merging of economic, social, and religious views, others say it is exploration of space, or improving the environment. I think we've already entered it and it is the need to communicate with others, the constant access of it and the way that has changed the way the average person lives.
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The fourth wave causes much discussion and differing points of view. Some see it as a merging of economic, social, and religious views, others say it is exploration of space, or improving the environment. I think we've already entered it and it is the need to communicate with others, the constant access of it and the way that has changed the way the average person lives.
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A new generation of video games are released when Microsoft enters the market with X-Box, Sony releases a long awaited Playstation II, and Nintendo releases the Game Cube.
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Artificial liver invented by Dr. Kenneth Matsumura and Alin Foundation.
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The controversial No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is approved by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush. The law, which reauthorizes the ESEA of 1965, holds schools accountable for student achievement levels and provides penalties for schools that do not make adequate yearly progress toward meeting the goals of NCLB.
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Apple Computers publicly announced their portable music digital player the iPod,
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YouTube - the online video sharing and viewing community - was invented in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
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Barrack Obama, first African American to be elected president of the United States.
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The first CD-ROM is developed by Phillips and Sony, CD-I
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The frozen food process is patented by Clarence Birdseye
