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St. Louis Museum
This Museum distributed films, study prints, and charts for knowledge in techology. -
First Instructional film was used in classrooms.
A few public schools in Rochester, NY, are the first to use films for classroom instruction. -
Thomas Edison releases films.
Thomas Edison makes a series of historical films about the American Revolution. He was the first film producer for educational film. -
Classroom broadcasting on radio.
The US DEpartment od Commerce licensses educational stations. -
Teachers must take a visual instruction course.
Pennsylvania makes a law requiring teachers take a course in visual instruction. -
First Computar used for instruction
trained MTI pilots -
First computar used with school children
In NYC, IBM computars were used in teaching. -
University time-sharing systems
Students and faculty used computars around the world for programming. -
First computar game.
A young computer programmer from MIT, Steve Russell created the first computer game'Spacewar." -
The computar mouse is invented.
Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Center invented this gadget. He named is a mouse because it had a tail coming out of it. -
CAI Movement
Computar-Assisted Instruction movement emerges and schools were funded to use minicomputars. -
Mainframe and minicomputars application dominate field
PLATO revolutionizes instruction, led under President William Norris. -
First minicomputar enters schools.
Teachers gain back control of instruction and administration using desktop systems. -
CAI Movement declines; computar literacy movement begins.
Non-computar students will be educationally disadvantaged, argues Arthur Luehmann. -
Minicomputar applications spawn movements
The focus is on software publishing intiative and teacher authoring software. Computars are teachers' tools. -
Intergrated learning systems emerge
Schools begin to realize networked systems are cost-effective solutions to learning and meeting standards. -
WWW is born
World Wide Web (WWW) is born and teachers enter the 'information superhighway". -
International Society for Technology in Education creates standards
ISTE sponsors create NETS ( National Educational Technology Standards to guide students and teachers in sjills. -
Internet use explodes
Online usage increases. -
ISTE
International Society for Teaching in Education issues new, updated standards for teachers and administrators.