HISTORY OF

EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY
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Stone age people knew how to
make a picture to represent an
object. Cave dwellers painted
pictures of animals on the walls
of caves.(The New Book of
knowledge )
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The Hebrews and
Phoenicians were the
first to use an alphabet.
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A group of Greek teachers
known as Sophists, with their
clever arguments and oratorical
style, were credited for the basic
philosophical foundations of
western thought
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In the 15th century, Johann
Guttenberg invented the
printing press.
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Technological Innovations, including
the development of textbooks,
blackboards,and improvement of pen
and ink, were seen in the 19th century.
In the medieval Europe, monks made
books, called manuscript books, by
writing on parchment with pens
made from quills.
Johann Amos Comenuius fame as a reformer
and writer of innovative textbooks and other
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educational works. He wrote Janus Linguarium
Reserta (“The Gate of Language Unlocked”), a
Latin language textbook that taught basic
vocabulary of eight thousand words and latin
grammar. He was recognized as the pioneer of
modern instructional technology with his
publication in 1657 of Orbis Sensualium
Pictus(“The Visible world Pictured”), the first
illustrated textbook specifically designed for
used by children in an instructional setting.
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Well known educators
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Visual education began in the 19th
century. Photography was
invented. Public lectures where
illustrated through the use of
magic lanterns that projected slides
and stereopticons, the earliest
visual display devices.
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The first school museum to open in the
United states was the St. Louis
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Educational Museum in 1905. The
museum, which housed collections of art
objects, models, photographs, charts, real
objects, and other instructional materials
gathered around the world, was the
forerunner of the present-day media
center. It was reanamd the Division of the
Audiovisual Education for the St. Louis
Schools in 1943.
Films came to classrooms in the early 20th
century. A series of historical and
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scientific films for school use was
developed by Thomas Edison. Theatrical
films were also used as educational tools.
The first educational film catalog was
published in 1910 in the United States.
Films for regular instructional use was
adopted by the first public school system
of Rochester, New York.
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The first instructional
television program was
launched by Iowa State
University in 1932
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The first all-electronic
computer, ABC, was
invented by John Atanasoff
and Clifford Berry at Iowa
State University in 1939.
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By the 1940s, the first
practical tape recorders
were developed.
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Edgar Dale developed the
Cone of Experience, a
hierarchy of learning
experiences in 1946.
John W. Mauchly and J. presper
Eckert invented the first large-scale,
general purpose electronic digital
computer, ENIAC at the University
of Pennsylvania in 1946. this first
generation computer is based on
vacuum tube technology.
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During the World War II years,
the US government produced
more than 800 training films and
filmstrips, purchased tens of
thousands of projectors, and
spent about 1 billion dollars in
training films.
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The invention of the
videotape in the 1950s made it
possible to record pictures as
well as sounds.
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Benjamin Bloom and his
colleagues published the
Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives, a scheme for
categorizing educational objectives
in 1956.
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In the late 1950s, the second
generation computers, based
on transistors were
introduced.
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A computer-aided instruction
project was started by Patrick
Suppes and his associates in the
early 1960s in Stanford
University. The Project developed
drilland practice and tutorial
applications.
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The third generation
computers which used solid-
state technology or integrated
circuits (IC’s) were launched
in the 190s.
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The fourth generation of
computers which  introduced
personal computers were
developed in the 1970s . One
significant highlight is the
invention of the microprocessor, a
single silicon chip that contains
all the functions of a computer.
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In the 1980s, 
the video
cassette recorder enabled
people to record and playback
television show. In the same
decade, compact discs became
popular.
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By the end of the 1990s ,
the internet had connected
many millions of computers
around the world.
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Educational television in the
Philippines began with channel
9’s Educational Tv produced by
Fr. James Reuter, SJ.
A major breakthrough in the
development of educationnal
technology was the establishment
of the Center for Educational
innovation aand Technology
(INNOTECH) to serve as research
arm of the Southeast Asian
Minister of Education
Organixation (SEAMEO).
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ABS-CBN, came out with a
sister station, knowledge
Channel, which aired
curriculum-based ETV
programs like Sine’skwela.
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