The four eras of digital technology in education

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Assalamualaikum everyone!

Today I want to share with you all awhat have I learnt in class Emerging Technologies In Teaching And Learning with Madam Azidatun.  It is about the four eras of digital technology in education :)


 1950- late 1970s: PRE-MICROCOMPUTER ERA

IBM 650 Computer Consoles, 1956
https://www.llnl.gov/news/photo_gallery/
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  • the first computer was used for instruction; MIT pilots are trained using flight simulators (1950)
  • the IBM 650 teaches binary arithmetic to school children in NYC (1959)
  • universities use main-frames systems for programming (1960-70)
  • Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) emerges; universities using mainframes and mincomputers in schools (early 1970s)
  • schools begin using computers for instruction and administration (mid to late 1970s)
  • Luehrmann coins the term computer literacy as CAI movement declines; in 1978, Molnar warns that non-computer literate students will be educationally disadvantaged (late 1970s)
Late 1970s- 1990s: MICROCOMPUTER ERA
  • the first microcomputers enter schools (1977)
  • Integrated Learning Systems (ILS) are identified as cost-effective solutions for instruction; movement away from stand-alone systems towards central servers with connected machines (mid 1980s-1990s) 
1993-1998: INTERNET ERA
  • the World Wide Web is born (1993)
  • online and distance learning increases (1994)
  • virtual schooling begins (1995)
  • International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) creates standards to guide technology skills for learners and teachers (1998)
2005- : MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES ERA
Apple iPad
http://www.ipadcreative.com/

  • social networking gains mainstream popularity (2005)
  • Amazon releases the first ebook reader, Kindle (2007)
  • Partnership for 21st Century Skills creates framework (2008)
  • iPad, the first handheld computer, released by Apple (2010)



  • Reference: http://mrshollyexploringlearning.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-four-eras-of-digital-technology-in.html 

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