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History of EdTech

  • Chalkboards!

    Chalkboards!
    Chalkboard was invented. People were using individual slates and paper and ink was so expensive. But chalkboard was cheap and efficient.
  • Invention of radio!

    Invention of radio!
    Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi succeeded in transmitting the first radio broadcast in 1900. In just a few short years nearly every home had a radio and this brought about many cultural and social changes to America.
  • Handheld Calculator

    Handheld Calculator
    The first handheld calculator was a prototype called "Cal Tech", whose development was led by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments in 1967. It could add, multiply, subtract, and divide, and its output device was a paper tape.
  • First apple computer

    First apple computer
    The Apple I, also known as the Apple-1, was an early personal computer. They were designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. Wozniak’s friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer.
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    The World Wide Web ("WWW" or the "Web") is a global information medium which users can access via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself and often called "the Internet", but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as email (also e-mail) and Usenet also does. The history of the Internet dates back significantly further than that of the World Wide Web.
  • Google!

    Google!
    The Google company was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm at first known as "BackRub" in 1996, with the help of Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg.
  • Learning Management Systems

    Learning Management Systems
    LMS platforms provide interactive software and online tools, such as discussion boards and dropboxes to support instuctional methods.
  • Flip Cameras

    Flip Cameras
    Flip video camera is introduced as an affordable digital camcorder. Videos impact educational technology because students can create videos as performance assessments.
  • EDMODO

    EDMODO
    Secure social networking platform for schools. Teachers can do everything with the students even out of the school.
  • 21th century tablet

    21th century tablet
    Apple announced the IPad with features including ebooks, Internet, ITunes.