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Another video presentation that captures the past as well as the future. It is amazing how much we have grown. We still have a long way to go...

The Future Amazingly Precise Predictions from AT&T in 1993 Super-Low-Tech iPhone Speaker Touch Screen Technology in 2014

Some tips for school leaders as history marches forward.

I remember when floppy discs really were floppy.

This is awesome! I remember when they were really floppy, too! It's funny that in my 7th grade English textbook resources, which were published in the last 6 years, the term "floppy disk" was still incoporated. My students stumbled upon the term this year, and I had to tell them it was esentially the same as the "memory sticks/jump drives/thumb drives" they use now.

Here's an exerpt from an article about LaserDiscs being used (or not being used) in the classroom.

I thought this was an interesting article about the rising use of the interactive whiteboards in classrooms. The use of this assistive technology has increased in the last several years. I was amazed to see that in 2008, 70% of schools in UK already had these in their classrooms. Many of our classes in Henrico have recently gotten them.

Many articles on dealing with educational technology from 1872- present. Wednesday is Digital Learning Day!

I love the way technology has given students with special needs a voice and a way to participate in school and life.

This history of rubber is an example of what at the time was cutting edge technology for classroom teachers to use in the 60's & 70's. Looks very similar to early slide show presentations done on the computer in the 90's.

A good site describing what TPACK is and its history.

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) attempts to identify the nature of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge. At the heart of the TPACK framework, is the complex interplay of three primary forms of knowledge: Content (CK), Pedagogy (PK), and Technology (TK). See Figure above. As must be clear, the TPACK framework builds on Shulman's idea of Pedagogical Content Knowledge.

Infographic explores history of flipping the classroom.

A timeline of the user interfaces to computing machines.

A brief list of some of the technologies used in the classroom since the 1800s.

This comment is about Dipity (I didn't find how to post it there)... I'm loving it!!! I have to make the time to play with it and learn how to use it well! (Casey Anthony has already her own timeline he he.... You can tell they're pretty up-to-date :D )

An excellent site detailing the introduction of certain technological advances in the school classroom. There is also a picture of each one for you visual learners.

OK, this one has a little bit of everything and very concise and clear, but what I loved the most was the quotes... An example: "Computers in the future may weigh no more than one and a half tons." -Popular Mechanics, Forecasting the Relentless March of Science, 1949.

Well, this article couldn't be more interesting... It dates back to 1997, it is in the Journal of Technology Education by Virginia Tech. It seems that since 1990 the number of students graduating with technology education teaching degrees had plummeted notoriously and the doomsday for the tech teacher preparation programs would occur by 2005... I guess it didn't happen!

Well, Norma, I do think this is interesting and I think it might have happened. The article is specifically about "technology teachers," and there aren't that many of those anymore. Now, technology is not as much a standalone subject as it is integrated into the whole learning process. That's good, IMHO. But, at the same time, I think we've gotten away from offering computer science courses. That's bad, IMHO.

Hmmmm... That's true! I've been trying to remember how things were in Colombia a couple of years ago, and it seems the same phenomenon has happened. I remember how in college I took some technology courses for specific kinds of programs... then, they started disappearing and if I wanted a refresher I had to teach myself or find a friend. In my schools here I can see how the technology classes are used as a means to do something else through technology rather than studying technology by itself... It stopped being the object of study and became a means to achieve objectives in other areas. A clear sample of that: The technology teachers at my two schools started going to two or three schools, they are more kind of facilitators than instructors... I guess that's pretty bad for the kind of student who needs to learn formally, step by step, in a classroom setting.... For our students... well, my younger students know way more than me! And they didn't learn it form anybody! Just trial and error!

A huge amount of information about the use of instructional film, radio and television, but it does show general trends though each decade.

I love how the timeline broadens your view of what technology is... Because of the era we were born in, we've narrowed down technology to the most modern expressions of it... which makes it more difficult to connect the dots as to how tech evolved...

Research by the US Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the effects of increased technology use in the classroom.

I loved reading here about how self-esteem in students increases as a result of the use of technology. I hadn't thought about it, and the examples it presents make me think about a good number of situations I have witnessed myself in which kids who struggle at almost everything can master rapidly a technological device, and how that becomes a golden opportunity for them to shine...

2006 paper on the development of technology

This quote struck me: "1995: Survey of teachers reported that computers were rarely used for instruction, but were used in elementary schools for drill and practice and in secondary schools for computer-related skills such as word processing" It was already 1995!!!! Things have changed so much in so little time!!!! I love to be able to see all these changes!! I love to have become an adult while witnessing so many revolutions of all kinds....

Summary of Technology in Education in the 20th Century