a celebration of technology in education

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A Celebration o

Technology in

Education1801 - 2012

Compiled by Zain Nabi Khan, 2012.


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1801: Invention of the Blackboard

James Pillans, headmaster of the Old High School of Edinburgh,Scotland, is widely credited for inventing the blackboard and coloredchalk, which he used to teach geography. They became green in the


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Well highlighted in social

commentary


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1884: Invention of Fountain

Pen

The first practical version of the fountain pen was produced in 1884 bythe American inventor L.E. Waterman.


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Late 1800s creation of lead

pencil


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1910 spirit duplicator machine

David Gestetner created his machine in 1910 and they were widely

used in schools until the late 1970s.


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1914 Multiple Choice Test

Invented

The Kansas Silent Reading Test (1914-1915) is the earliest known

published multiple-choice test, developed by Frederick J. Kelly, a Kansasschool director. Kelly created the test to reduce "time and effort" in


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1925 the creation of television

1956 saw the introduction of mainstream broadcast television in

Australia, with Bruce Gyngellsfamous quote, Good evening, andwelcome to television


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1938/41 the creation of the Biro

In 1941 the Br brothers and a friend, Juan Jorge Meyne, filed a patent and

formed Br Pens of Argentina. The new design was licensed by the British,who produced ball point pens for RAF aircrew, who found these pens worked


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1950 The Overhead Projector

The first version of the overhead projector was created in 1940 but

it was Roger Appledorn who in the early 1960s is credited with thedevice as we know it today in 1960. It was entrenched in classes in


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1956 first video tape recorder

April 14 1956 Ampex demonstrated its first video tape recorder.


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1958 Liquid Paper

Developed


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1960 Whiteboard invented

Claridge Products was the first company to manufacture the

porcelain whiteboard. It wasnt until mid-1990s the whiteboardstarted to be adopted on a larger scale in Australian schools


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1962 first Compact Cassettetape

Philips creates the first Compact Cassette tape which, between the1970s to 90s was one of two most common audio recording formats.


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1971 first floppy disc is available

In 1986 the 1.44 format was introduced.


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1972 first commercial calculatorcreated


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1973 first mobile phonecall

1973: The world's first mobile phone call is made, by

Motorola's Martin Cooper, on this prototype analogue


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1975 colour television hitsAustralia


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1977 the introduction of VHS

The VCR entered Australia via Beta in 1975, but it was the VHS

technology that won out. By 1984, 26% of families had a VCR. By1997 the VCR had spread to 87% of households.


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1978 first Walkman

The prototype was built in 1978 by audio-division engineer Nobutoshi

Kihara for Sony co-chairman Akio Morita, who wanted to be able tolisten to operas on his trans-Pacific business flights. It was launched


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1982 first CD player

October 1982 first CDP101 released in USA. On 2 March 1983 CD playersand discs were launched in the US and other markets this was referred toas the Big Bang of the digital audio revolution.


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1983 - Mobile phonesdevelopment


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1984 Apple Maclaunched


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1985 first production of CDROM

Philips and Sony both developed the technology.


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1988 Scantronics firstmarking system


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1992 Windows 3.1launched


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1993 first commercialSMS system sold


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1994 first version of WoWlaunched

With 10.2 million subscribers as of December 2011, WoW is theworlds largest Massively Multiple Online-Player Game (MMOPG).We have students waking up in the middle of the night to play the


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1994 first consumer-leveldigital camera

The Apple QuickTake 100 was launched in 1994 and was the first to

connect to the home computer via a serial cable.


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1995 Windows 95Launched

Included Internet Explorer a web browser


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1996 Google is launched


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1998 Interactive Whiteboardsintroduced

Smartboard introduces its information management software and

its Smart notebook 2.0 software.


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1999 Wi-Fi AllianceFormed


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2000 first USB flash drive


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2001 the iPod isintroduced


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2003 Skype was founded

Skype was purchased by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5

billion.


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2005 YouTube launched

In 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65

Billion


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2007 the first iPhone released


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1 000 000th word enters EnglishLanguage on June 10, 2009


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2010 the first iPad is introduced


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2010 document cameras inclassrooms


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2010 Kinect launched

After selling a total of 8 million units in its first 60 days, the Kinectholds the Guinness World Record of being the fastest sellingconsumer electronics device.


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2011 Broadband Global Stats

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120 000

140 000

160 000

180 000

Average advertised broadband download speed, kbit/s* Median

Average advertised broadband download speed, by country, kbit/s, September 2011


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2012 Google Glasses tobe launched

Theres something VERY big about to happen and its this

year!

2014 possible launch of


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2014 possible launch ofnew radio bandwidth

system

March 1, 2012 Scientists demo radio wave

"twisting" to increase bandwidth

Lets be aware and considerate!


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Let s be aware and considerate! By age 21, boys in USA have spent 10 000 hours on computer

games. Computers will be on par with human intelligence by 2029. The percentage of our waking time spent alone increased by

14% to three hours a day: AustralianBureau of Statistics

Our schools are forcing more academic content onto youngeryears

Girls are presumed to be better at literacy and so thisexpectation becomes self-fulfilling especially in co-educationclasses.

In the early years a boys maturity is commonly aligned to a

year below girls of the same age Boys are more likely to be deemed behaviour problems, andmuch more likely to be considered as having ADHD

Girls are more rehearsed in the appropriateness of answeringquestions, and so are more likely to be asked for answers

Boys in co-education classes are more acutely aware of not


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Why do we educate?

Pass on cultural and

social values, traditions,morality, religion andskills to the next

generation.

Or is it to get a goodjob?

Wh t i i t ti ?


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What is our intention?For what are we aiming?

?


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If you are one in a million in China, there are 1300 people like you. China

will soon be the number one English speaking country in the world.

The 25% of Indias population with the highest IQs is greater than the total

population of the USA. India has more honours kids than America haskids!

The top ten in demand jobs in 2010 didnt exist in 2004 - we are preparingstudents for jobs that dont yet exist.

Todays learner will have 10-14 jobs by the age of 38.

1 out of 8 couples married in America in 2008 met online.

Facebook has over 800 million registered usersif it were a country, it would be the 3RD largest in the world!

There are 31 billion searches on Google every month.

Did You Know?

Ch i th l


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Change is the onlyconstant

We believe if we duck the pendulum it will miss and return and miss and return.We can keep our common ground.


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Some problems exist

If we are seeking a traditional approach fill thebrain approach we are stifling progress

because it is based on what we know, which is

P bl ith th


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Problems with theclassroom

We box in learners and make them think school learning only

happens inside the box. We have subject silos and we miss seeingconnections.


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Problems with the system

The Age Cage (one day can be the difference) and the way we book

end learning not seeing it as life-long.

NAPLAN NAPALM!?


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NAPLAN or NAPALM!?The Australian SATs

Th i diff


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There is a differenceperformer vs learner

We need balance


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We need balance.High-stake testing robs us of

breadth.

And disengages learners and teachers!

W t i i !


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We are not improving!Why?

First world countries have not seen any increases in standardised test

scores for literacy, numeracy and science since the mid 1960s.


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Mental health 1 in 5

One in four Australians aged 1624years had experienced some mentalhealth disorder in the previous twelvemonths. In the estimates of diseaseburden for 2010, mental disordersaccount for about half of the burden intheseyoung people.

Diabetes in A stralia


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Diabetes in Australia -rising

552 million people could have diabetes by 2030From:AP November 14, 2011 10:01PM

THE International Diabetes Federation predicts that one in 10adults could have diabetes by 2030, according to their lateststatistics.


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Overweight and growing


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Eating fruit and vegetables

Our perception can lead us


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Our perception can lead usastray


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Do we teach thinking?

Alphabet

=AlphaBeta

Dr Jamie McKenzieprovides insight that onaverage adults rememberonly two teachers who

taught them to think.


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Education Revolution?

There is a changing


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There is a changingparadigm much bigger

than Teaching

Flip Learning Makes


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Flip Learning MakesSense

You set tutorials and concepts via tutorials to bestudied at home and then support greater

understanding via lessons and teacher/tutor/peer

Our world is different and


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Our world is different andchanging

Years it took to reach a market audience of 50million:

Radio 38 years | Television 13 years | Internet 4years


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Is this it?

Social Learning we


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Social Learning weconnect

Birth and Location is no longer the


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Birth and Location is no longer thecompass of your future!

The box is broken.


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Thank you.

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