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1. Timeline of Educational Technology in Schools
Infographic
It’s amazing how quickly technology changes, even in the course of six months. But can you imagine how much it
has changed over decades? The Timeline of Educational Technology in Schools Infographic shows how educational
technology has evolved in schools over the past 114 years.
1900 – 1920 – Age of the One-room Schoolhouse
1923 – Radios were introduced to classrooms; major cities established classroom instruction on radios –
penmanship, accounting, history and arithmetic were included
1930s – overhead projectors initially used for US military training purposes quickly spread to schools
1933 – 52% of schools were using silent films and 3% were using sound films
1939 – the first TV appeared in a classroom in LA; now the most widely used technology in schools
1950 – Headphones became popular in schools and stations used to listen to audio tapes were dubbed ‘language
labs’
1964 – BASIC developed at Dartmouth College with the intent to give students a simple programming language that
was easy-to-learn
1967 – Texas Instruments develops the handheld calculator
1967 – LOGO programming language developed
1972 – Scantron – automatically graded multiple choice examples
1973 – The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (later Corporation), most commonly known as MECC
was founded creators of Lemonade Stand (’73) and Oregon Trail (’74)
1984 – The Apple Macintosh computer is developed. The ration of computers to students in US schools is 1 – 92
1985 – Touch typing software Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is developed and popularized in schools
1988 – laptops are developed and are eventually utilized as teaching tools
1990 – CD-ROM disks became the new kind of storage
1992 – Schools are use Gopher servers to provide students with online information
1994 – According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), about 35% of American public schools had
Internet access
1995 – Most CAI is delivered on CD-ROM disks and is growing in popularity
1996 – Faculty create instructional web pages
1999 – SMART boards introduced in schools
2001 – 80% of schools with internet access offered professional development training for teachers for integrating
technology into classrooms.
2002 – 99% of schools had internet access
2009 – 1 computer for every 5.3 students in US schools
2010 – 1 wireless device for every 3.4 students in US schools
2011 – 80% of children under 5 use internet daily in the US
2012 – 1.5 million iPads provided by schools
2013 – 90% of students under the age of 18 have access to mobile technology