Thursday, October 8, 2015

Technology in the Classroom


 Examples Of The Evolution Of Classroom Technology
1890: The Chalkboard (this was actually a pretty big deal at one point)
1925: Film
1957: B.F. Skinner Teaching Machine
1960: Overhead Projector
1970: Educational Programming
1972: Scantrons (Can we go back in time and sabotage this one?)
cassette based computer
Individual teachers used these and paid for them out of their own pockets.
3.5 floppy
Roosevelt School began classes when this disk developed.




1977: Desktop PCs



1996: The Internet (game-changer)
1999: Interactive Whiteboards (meh)
2004: YouTube (crazy underrated tech in our eyes)
2005: “Clickers”
2007: Tablets
2013: Mobile Apps (likely the beginning of something new)

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