Toffler’s Waves Timeline

EDUC 8840 Charity Marcella Moran

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Reading Guide/Color Legend: STRAND ONE: WAVE THEORY Strand Two: Techno logy/Key Advance s Strand Three: Work/Business and Corporation

Philosophies Strand Four: Education/Theories of Learning

and Instruction Strand Five: Society and Culture Strand Six: Developments in Mathematics

8000 B.C. - 1650 AGRICULTURE WAVE Toffler 's Fi rs t Wave began approx

10,000 years ago - the end of the Old Stone Age ( the Pa leo l i th ic ) and the beg inn ing o f the New Stone Age or the Neo l i th ic . Th is i s approx when the Agr icu l tura l Revo lut ion s tar ted - c lear ing & t i l l ing land and domest icat ing an imals and herd ing o f cat t le .

1650 - 1950 INDUSTRIALIZATION WAVE

WAVES WILL NOW BE BROKEN DOWN BY DECADE, BEGINNING WITH 1900

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1900 STRAND ONE: INDUSTRIALIZATION WAVE St rand Two : P las t i c s , sonar , mode l T ,

vacuum d iode gy rocompass , he l i cop te r , Wr igh t B ros

Strand Three: Ford mass production and a new era in industrial history had begun

Strand Four: Thorndike’s Theory of Connectionism & Dewey’s Experimental Lab

Strand Five: Ford mass production and a new era in industrial history had begun

Strand Six: Einstein's theory of special relativity.

1910 STRAND ONE: INDUSTRIALIZATION WAVE S t r a n d Tw o : Ra d i o w a v e re g e n e r a t i o n ,

E d i s o n & m u s i c Strand Three: The Progressive Era Strand Four: In 1913, Watson published the article

"Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" — sometimes called "The Behaviorist Manifesto". In this article, Watson outlined the major features of his new philosophy of psychology, called "behaviorism"

Strand Five: escalation of immigration and poverty, labor & monopoly battles, work safety and child labor problems. World War I - the first 'war to end all wars' raged

Strand Six: Einstein's theory of general relativity.

1920 STRAND ONE: INDUSTRIALIZATION WAVE S t r a n d Tw o : T V , L o u d s p e a ke r s Strand Three: Business Cycle Theory Strand Four: Washburne & Parkhurst - Individualized

Instruction Plans Strand Five: This decade is known as the Roaring 20’s, more

Americans live in cities than in rural areas; the first Red Scare takes place; Supreme Court holds minimum wage law unconstitutional in Adkins v. Children's Hospital. H Hoover is elected on the promise of "a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage." 1929-In October, the stock market crashes, and the Great Depression begins.

Strand Six: John von Neumann begins devising the principles of game theory and proves the minimax theorem,

1930 STRAND ONE: INDUSTRIALIZATION THEORY S t r a n d Tw o : Fro z e n Fo o d s , A i r M a i l , S c o t c h

t a p e , t a l k i n g b o o k s f o r t h e b l i n d , t y p e w r i t e r. Strand Three: The Great Depression & The New Deal Strand Four: John B. Watson and Formal System of

Psychology; Ralph Tyler emphasized behavioral objectives and formative education

Strand Five: Social Security enacted & War of the Worlds boradcast inflicts fear

Strand Six: Casimir Kuratowski shows that the three-cottage problem has no solution

1940 STRAND ONE: INDUSTRIALIZATION THEORY S t r a n d Tw o : 1 s t m i l i t a r y t r a i n i n g fi l m f o r

WW I I ; T h e E N I AC Strand Three: Electrical Engineers evolve from WWII;

Gertrude Wilson gives Group Work Philosophy Strand Four: B. F. Skinner and Operant Conditioning Strand Five: Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care book is

published Strand Six: John von Neumann computes π to 2,037

decimal places using ENIAC,

1950 STRAND ONE: INDUSTRIALIZATION THEORY St rand Two: Computer Ass i s ted

Ins t ruc t ion ; 1 s t Te lev i s ion broadcas t in co lo r

Strand Three: White collar jobs outnumber blue-collar jobs; the MRS. Degree

Strand Four: Bloom’s Taxonomy ; Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Strand Five: Civil Rights Movement; Space Race Strand Six: H. S. M. Coxeter et al. publish the

complete list of uniform polyhedron,

1960 - 1990 INFORMATION WAVE

WAVES WILL CONTINUE TO BE BROKEN DOWN BY DECADE, BEGINNING WITH 1960

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1960 INFORMATION WAVE Teach ing Mach ines Used; ER IC Identity status; feminist movement Instructional design; Glasser’s criterion-

referenced measures Vietnam War, Woodstock Fuzzy Mathematics founded

1970 STRAND ONE: INFORMATION THEORY Strand Two: E lect ron ic mai l and

opt ica l character recogni t ion Strand Three: Flextime and The Peter Principle Strand Four: Schema Theory and Matery

Learning Strand Five: First Earth Day and Roe vs. Wade Strand Six: Four Color Theorem

1980 STRAND ONE: INFORMATION THEORY St rand Two : App le i n t roduces Mac in tosh ;

CD-ROM p laye rs f o r compute r s Strand Three: Reaganomics and Theory Z Strand Four: A Nation at Risk and Gardener’s

Multiple Intelligences Strand Five: Destruction of the Berlin Wall and

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Strand Six: the classification of finite simple groups,

a collaborative work involving some hundred mathematicians and spanning thirty years, is completed

1990 STRAND ONE: INFORMATION THEORY S t r a n d Tw o : Wo r l d Wi d e We b a n d

E d u c a t i o n a l W E b q u e s t s Strand Three: Americans with Disabilities Act and Don’t

Ask Don’t Tell Strand Four: Outcome-based education and Constructivist

Theory Strand Five: Cloning enters medical field; development of

the World Wide Web Strand Six: Yasumasa Kanada, David Bailey, Jonathan

Borwein, and Peter Borwein use iterative modular equation approximations to elliptic integrals and a NEC SX-2 supercomputer to compute π to 134 million decimal places

2000 – Present COMMUNICATION WAVE

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2000s STRAND ONE: COMMUNICATION THEORY S t r an d Tw o : S M A RT bo a rds ; O n l i ne So c i a l

N e t wo r ks Strand Three: Ethical Consumerism; Pareto’s Principle Strand Four: No Child Left Behind Strand Five: Terrorism in the U.S.: (9-11) Taliban terrorists

bring down Twin Towers and assault the Pentagon. Barack Obama--44th president of the US; 1st African-

American. Strand Six: the Clay Mathematics Institute proposes the

seven Millennium Prize Problems of unsolved important classic mathematical questions.