How Technology in Schools Has Changed Over Time

THEN vs NOW- ---- ----- ---- How Technology in Schools Has Changed Over Time ---- ---- ---- 1900 - 1920 1923 The one-room schoolhouse Classrooms begin incorporating radios into penmanship, accounting, history and arithmetic lessons 1980s Overhead projectors, initially used for US military training, quickly spreads to schools 1933 52% of schools are using silent films and 3% are using films with sound 1939 The first TV appears in a classroom in LA 1950 Headphones become popular in school language labs BASIC 1960s Whiteboards are invented to replace the Chalkboard 1967 Texas Instruments develops 1964 BASIC is developed at Dartmouth College with the intent of giving students a simple programming language that is easy-to-learn the handheld calculator Lemonade 1973 1972 Scantrons are used to automatically grade multiple choice tests The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium is founded. The organization popularizes school software such as Oregon Trail ('74) and Lemonade Stand ('73) hello 1985 Touch typing software Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is developed and popularized in schools 1984 Apple Macintosh computer is introduced. The ratio of computers to students in US schools is 1-92 1988 1990 Laptops are introduced and are eventually utilized as teaching tools CD-ROMS become a predominant form of storage 1991 SMART boards are introduced in schools 2002 According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), about 99% of American public schools have Internet access. About 35% had Internet access in 1994 2012 1.5 million iPads are used in US schools 2013 90% of students under the age of 18 have access to mobile technology Sources: MASTEROFARTSINTEACHING.NET http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/evolving_classroom/ http://www.teachhub.com/how-technology-changed-learning http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=46 DEVELOPED BY http://edudemic.com/2011/04/classroom-technology/ N NOWSOURCING http://www.ehow.com/about_5544014_history-technology-classroom.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/19/magazine/classroom-technology.html http://www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/jgcc_alwaysconnected.pdf http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57411576-93/one-fifth-of-third-graders-own-cell-phones/ http://www.pewinternet.org/-/media/Files/Reports/2012/PIP_TeacherSurveyReportWithMethodologyı10112.pdf