This document provides a history of educational technology from 4000 BC to the future. It describes some of the major developments throughout history including the abacus in 2700 BC, the printing press in 1436, the development of slide rules and calculators in the 1700s-1800s, the introduction of computers and the internet in the 1960s-1980s, and emerging technologies like virtual and augmented reality being applied to education. The timeline shows how technology has increasingly been integrated into classrooms over the past centuries and will likely continue transforming education.

1. History of Educational
Technology
Presented by,
Sajana.A
Aiswarya Gopal

2. Introduction
• Classrooms have come a long way.
• exponential growth in educational
technology advancement over the past few
years.
• Educational technology Yesterday
 Today
 Tomorrow

3. o Paintings and drawings
are new means of
communication.
o
The Abacus
4000
BC
2300
2700
BC

4. 4000
BC
o First writing in China,
on bones.
389
BC
o Founding of the Academy
by Plato begins a new
movement in education.

5. • Guttenburg
Printing Press
1436
• The printing of the Bible with
moveable type by
Gutenberg transforms
society.
1453

6. • Graphite is
discovered.
1564
• First public school in
The US.
1635

7. 1635
• Napier’s Bonesan aid to
calculation
1651
• John Dury invents
the modern library.

8. 1635
• first slide rule in
which the slide
works between
parts of a fixed stock
1751
• first encyclopaedia was
published

9. 1872
• QWERTY:
Christopher Sholes
develops a machine
to print the alphabet.
• Remington No.2
hits the shelf.
1878

10. 1901
• Marconi sends a
radio signal across
the Atlantic.
• August Dvorak creates
a keyboard that is easier
to learn.
1932

11. 1944
• Grace Hopper is
responsible
for the term 'bug'
for a computer fault.
1960
• An early CAI
system, PLATO,
was initiated at the
University of Illinois

12. 1964
• IBM brings out the
MT/ST
(Magnetic Tape/Selectric
Typewriter).
1967
• Texas Instruments develops
the first hand-held
calculator

13. 1966
• The Educational
Resources Information
Center (ERIC) is
established as
national information
system.

14. 1968
• Douglas
Engelbart introduces
a prototype of the
computer mouse,
• Scholar is
developed
as the first
Intelligent
Tutoring System (ITS).
1969

15. 1969
• The Arpanet
is constructed
1970
• The Arpanet
goes online.

16. 1975
• The Altair 8800
leads the way for
personal computers.
• Apple
introduces
the Apple II
1977

17. 1978
• - (JVC) introduces
VHS format video cassette
recorder.
--Radio Shack introduces
the TRS-80.

18. 1983
• Apple introduces
the Apple IIe.
• Apple introduces
the Macintosh.
-Commodore introduces
the Commodore 64. 1984
-CD-ROM players
or computers.

19. 1985
• Aldus PageMaker
is released for the
Macintosh and desktop
publishing is born.
• Apple begins
shipping Hypercard,
1987
a programming system
and multimedia authoring tool.

20. • 1989 The World-Wide
Web begins.
1989

21. 1990
• Texas Instruments
creates the popular
TI-81 graphing calculator.
• Mosaic Alpha 4.0
comes to Champaign
Centennial
High School
1993

22. 1994
• NJSTAR is created
making it convenient to
those who use Chinese,
Japanese and Korean to
surf the internet.
• Classroom Connect
offers educational
WebQuests for classrooms
all over the world
1995

23. • The Advanced
1999
Cluster Computing
Consortium introduces a
super computer built with
off the shelf parts

24. 2000
• NEATscape version 5.0
is released. anyone can
use any computer to read
their native language.
• museum
and historical
2001
Site sponsors
its own online
field trip.

25. 2002
• Apple releases its
third generation iMac
in teal with a built-in microphone.
Students take it to class,
and it records the lecture so
that the student can organize
the lecture to meet his/her
learning style.
• PaperGraderXPress, a wand-like,
wireless device, which reads and
analyzes any type of student composition.
2002

26. • --Prometheus, virtual World
2005
University, opens.
-- textbooks to create the Interactive
Textbook.
--Books are published in a dual format -Opti-books

27. 2000 - 2010
• YouTube is founded and
comes online .
2005
• Apple introduces the iPhone to the
2006
public .
• Wi-Fi – Wireless Internet
Connection is developed.

28. 2009
• Personal Access and
Display Device appears.
• Introduction of the
first fully automated
classroom.

29. • --The Internet is accessed
entirely through wireless,
handheld, pocket computers.
• Email is replaced by video
letter systems.
• The first widespread use
of electronic
textbooks in US schools
2010

30. • Trieger Industries announces TalkTech,
a revolutionary, voice-activated
technical assistant that can troubleshoot
any technologyrelated problem.

31. • --Macro hard releases Real Life,
a combination wall-sized touch-screen LCD
display unit and wall-mounted DVD
player to recreate your home or
classroom into any environment you
choose.
• --AT&T introduces Desktop Learning.
--The Individual Student Computer Automated Desk is
introduced.
--Virtual reality is the phase of the Internet.
--Students will learn about history via virtual reality.

32. • Virtual Classroom, an artificial teaching
environment by the Korean Artificial
Intelligence System Research Institute.
• Students use the Power Pencil, which
stores the information that is written with
it.
--Downloadable Consciousness Tutor

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34. Thank You