Prepared By: Aianah A. Gutiera

Phoebe A. Podiotan

History of Educational Technology

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3300 BC

● Use of pointed sticks to inscript signs and symbols on leaves and bark of trees

3100 BC

• Cuneiform in Mesopotamia was developed

3000 BC

• Hieroglyphics and Papyrus in Egypt• Spartan Education• Athenian Education

600 AD

• Use of a quill pen

888 AD

• Diamond Sutra • was printed

1440

• Johannes Gutenburg completed the printing press

1658

• Orbis Pictus (The World in Pictures) by Johann Amos Comenius was published

1790

• Pencil was invented

1801

• Use of blackboards in academic military schools

1805

• Pestalozzi Method was developed

1826

• First permanent image using Camera Obscura

1840

• Froebel coined the word “kindergarten”

1884

• First proper fountain pen was invented

1907

• Maria Montessori’s Casa dei Bambini was established

1920s

• Use of educational films• Sidney Pressey’s teaching

machines 

1930s

• Airing of first instructional TV• 16mm sound motion picture was

developed

1940s

• Movies, filmstrips, radio, and other pictorial devices were used in military trainings

• Invention of Memex by Vanevar Bush• Modern version of ball point pen was

invented

1950s

• Skinner’s Programmed Instruction

• Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

1960s

• Use of whiteboard• Use of computers in schools• Systems approach to designing

instruction was introduced• Instructional films became more

creative and more accessible• Large scale television availability

1970s

• Proliferation of instructional design models

• Development of needs assessment procedures

1980s

• Digitized communication and networking in education started

• CBI / CBT flourished

1990s

• Hypertext and hypermedia influence the field

• Learning management systems (LMS) were used

2000s

• Internet technologies are more integrated in the academe

• Web 2.0 tools• Web conferencing