Time Line of History Superimposing the Six Strands of Society from 1900 to the Present

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First Wave Second Wave Third Wave Fourth Wave

Agricultural Era:

8000 B.C. - A.D. 1650-1750 Industrial Era: 1750 - 1955

Information Era:

1955 – 1995 Communication Era

1995 – Present

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1900-1909Pencils

Stereoscope

1910-1919•Thomas Edison invents the first talking motion picture

•Alexander Victor invented the Animatograph, the first portable projector that combined a camera with sound-on-disc.

1950-1959•Skinner Teaching Machine

•Educational Television

1970-1979•Pocket Calculator

•Apple Computer

1930-1939•Overhead Projector

•First tape recorder for broadcasting

1990-1999•World Wide Web & internet protocol and “www” language

•Interactive Whiteboard

1920-1929•Radio

•Silent Movies

1940-1949•Harvard Mark I computer

•Mimeograph

1960-1969•Audio Cassette

•Filmstrip Viewer

1980-1989•IBM 5150

•Commercial CD

2000-2010•iClicker

•XO Laptop

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1900-1909

•Ford introduced the Model T automobile

•Plastic

1920-1929

•Frozen Food packaging

•KDKA, first radio station

1940-1949

•Atomic Bomb

•ENIAC computer

1960-1969

•First ATM installed

•Integrated circuit boards replace transistor technology

1980-1989

•CAD/CAM revolutionizes manufacturing

•Development of Microcomputer Software

2000-2010

•Microsoft releases Microsoft 2010

•Apple iPad

1910-1919

•Use of auto assembly line

•Electric self-starter automobile

1950-1959

•Conglomerates start to form

•Bomber Aircraft developed by the military

1970-1979

•UPC bar code

•Supercomputer

1990-2000

•Microsoft launches MSN and MSNBC

•Microsoft releases Windows 98

1930-1939•Construction flourishes in the U.S.

•Use of fiberglass begins

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1900-1909

•Ivan Pavlov publishes his findings on Classical Conditioning

•The Montessori Method

1920-1929

•Cognitive Model

• Individualized Instruction

1940-1949

•B.F. Skinner Operant Conditioning

•Mathematico-Deductive Theory of Rote Learning

1960-1969

•Discovery Learning

•Mastery Learning

1980-1989

•Multiple Intelligences Theory

•Cognitive Load Theory of Multimedia Learning (Sweller)

2000-2010

•Social and Cognitive-Connectedness Schemata Theory (SCCS Theory)

•Authentic Learning

1910-1919

•Reflective Method of Instruction

•William Heard Kilpatrick develops the Project Method

1950-1959

•Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

•Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

1970-1979

•Social Learning Theory

•Affordance Theory (Gibson

)

1990-1999

•Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (Mayer)

•Situated Learning Theory

1930-1940•The Morrison Plan•Ralph W. Tyler - Eight Year Study use of general and behavioral objectives and formative evaluation

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1900-1909

•Orville and Wilbur Wright take the first test flight in their plane at Kitty Hawk, NC

•Teddy Roosevelt is the first president to leave the country

1920-1929

•First Miss America pageant

•Stock Market Crash of 1929

1940-1949

•Bombing of Pearl Harbor

•World War II

1960-1969

•Civil Rights Act of 1964

•Woodstock Festival

1980-1989

•The spaceship Voyager 2 captures pictures of Saturn and Neptune

•First woman in the Supreme Court

2000-2010

•Terror attacks hit U.S.

•Barack Obama wins presidential election

1910-1919

•Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in the U.S.

•Out break of World War I

1950-1959

•Beginning of Rock and Roll

•Russians launch Sputnik

1970-1979

•US astronauts explore the moon

•“Earth Day”

1990-1999

•Gulf War

•Y2K

1930-1940•The “Star Spangled Banner” became the U.S. national anthem.

• Great Depression

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1900-1909• First culture of living

cells outside the body

• Cure for syphilis

1920-1929

•Penicillin discovered

•First use of valvulotome

1940-1949

•First kidney dialysis machine

•Fluoridation of drinking water

1960-1969

•Birth control pill becomes FDA approved

•Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard by the Surgeon General

1980-1989

•First artificial heart implanted into a human

•Discovery of “AIDs”

2000-2010

•FDA approves first vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer

•First draft of the human genome/genetic blueprint

1910-1919

•Pellagra found to be a dietary disease

•Casimir Funk identifies vitamins

1950-1959

•World’s first cardiac pacemaker invented

•Artificial heart valve developed

1970-1979

•First test tube baby born

•Introduction of computerized axial tomography, the “CAT-scanner”

1990-1999

•Viagra

•Digital X-Rays

1930-1939•First blood bank at Cook County Hospital in Chicago

•Plastic contact lens created

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