Created for EdTech 501 by Doug Wolfe.
Filmstrip projectors were a simpler alternative to slide projectors.
Carl Carlson filed the patent for microfiche on May 22, 1961.
Audiovisual communications is that branch of educational theory and practice primarily concerned with the design and use of messages which control the learning process. (Ely, 1963, pp. 18-19)
After several years of planning, Sesame Street debuts on public television, launching a new era in children's television.
In its more familiar sense it means the media born of the communications revolution which can be used for instructional purposes alongside of the teacher, textbook, and blackboard...the pieces that make up instructional technology: television, films, overhead projectors, computers and other items of "hardware" and "software." (Commission on Instructional Technology, 1970, p. 21)
A systematic way of designing, carrying out, and evaluating the total process of learning and teaching in terms of specific objectives, based on research in human learning and communication and employing a combination of human and nonhuman resources to bring about more effective instruction. (Commission on Instructional Technology, 1970, p. 21)
Educational technology is a field involved in the facilitation of human learning through the systematic identification, development, organization and utilization of a full range of learning resources and through the management of these processes. (AECT, 1972, p. 36)
Prices for pocket calculators rapidly drop, making them accessible to average students.
Educational technology is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating and managing solutions to those problems involved in all aspects of human learning. (AECT, 1977, p. 1)
Apple introduced the Apple II computer, one of the first computers to find widespread classroom use.
The IBM PC (Personal Computer) is released.
Before an enthralled audience of 3,000 people, Steve Jobs unveils the Macintosh computer for the first time.
SMART introduced the first interactive whiteboard.
Instructional technology is the theory and practice of the design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning. (Seels & Richey, 1994, p. 1)
Podcasts become popular.
Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources. (Januszewski & Molenda, 2008, p. 1)
Apple releases the iPad, the first popular tablet computer.
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