1. The Good, The Better, The Technologically Advanced!!
Toffler’s Three Waves
Past, Present, Future
The Good, The Better, The Technologically Advanced!!

2. Agricultural Wave 1800BC-1750AD
Extended families tied to the land and dependent on the survival of crops.
Families traveled by walking or horse.
Communication consisted of talking face to face or word traveling with the Pony Express
Education was simple including few books, classes with a variety of age groups, and home schooling.

3. Industrial Wave
Family changed to nuclear units due to industrialization.
Families were separated to work in factories and towns.
Businesses went top down, bureaucracies were in place, and factories went up.
People continued to communicate face to face with the addition of landline telephones.
Educaiton saw the addition of film strips, video, TV, students grouped by age and grade, and books.

4. Informational Wave
Single parent families/two working parents/latch key kids
Business has moved into a collaborative teamwork environment with flexible hours. Locations are varied.
Planes and automobiles are prevalent
Communication has taken a massive leap with the use of cellular phones, computers, and internet. Our youth is now digitalized.

5. Fourth Wave/ “Humanology”
A continuous process from the agricultural, industrial, to informational age to the multi facets of technological advances we see today.
Communication and Creativity is and will play an important role
Values, morals, and standards must be implemented
Biotechnologies have started and will continue to develop
All knowledge based facets are being influenced and will continue to be influenced and changed.
Is it possible that the human will actually become the computer instead of manipulating the machine?

6. Technological Advances and Innovations: 1900-1910
In 1902 Willis Carrier invented the first air conditioning.
In 1906 Lewis Nixon invented the first sonar listening device

7. Business and Corporate Philosophies: The Nature of Work: 1900-1910
Cost accounting innovated by DuPont in 1903
1908 Ford’s assembly line

8. Educational Theories in Learning and Instruction: 1900-1910
The first copies of The Interpretation of Dreams appear, post- dated
Ernest Jones: Founder of the American Psychoanalytic Association 1910

9. Society and Culture/ Key Events that determined the thinking of 1900-1910
1908 NAACP founded
1903 Wright Brothers first flight

10. Advances in the World of Music 1900-1910
1990 Jazz
1990 Sheetmusic

11. Technological Advances and Innovations: 1910-1920
Garrett A. Morgan invents Morgan Gas Mask in
1917: Jacob Schick develops the electric razor

12. Business and Corporate Philosophies: The Nature of Work: 1910-1920
1910 Hollywood is born
1911 Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States

13. Educational Theories in Learning and Instruction: 1910-1920
1912 first Montessori school was established in Tarrytown, N.Y.
1916 Dewey writes Democracy and Education.

14. Society and Culture/ Key Events that determined the thinking of 1910-1920
1917 WW1
1919 Nineteenth Amendment

15. TimeLine Project
EDUC /EDUC Evolution of Educational Technology in Society, Education, and the Workplace
Elizabeth Ethridge

16. Advances in the World of Music 1910-1920
American patriotic songs/Between   mid-1914 and mid-1919
1920 Juilliard Foundation created

17. Technological Advances and Innovations: 1920-1930
1921- Modern polygraph machine invented by John Larson.
1926- John Baird creates first television transmitter

18. Business and Corporate Philosophies: The Nature of Work: 1920-1930
1927 Doheny Oil Scandal Case
1929 Stock Market Crash

19. Educational Theories in Learning and Instruction: 1920-1930
1924 A. S. Neil founded Summerhill a radical progressive school founded on the principals of freedom.
1926 Sidney L. Pressey published the first paper on the use of the Teaching Machine in School and Society.

20. Society and Culture/ Key Events that determined the thinking of 1920-1930
1920 Prohibition of alcohol
1929 Stock Market Crash

21. Advances in the World of Music 1920-1930
1925 First Electrical Recordings
1927 The New Orthophonic Victrola Record Player

22. Technological Advances and Innovations: 1930-1940
1932 Edward Herbert Land invented stop action photography
1937 Chester Carlson invented the photocopier.

23. Business and Corporate Philosophies: The Nature of Work: 1930-1940
1930 The Ernest Munster Papers
1933 The New Deal

24. Educational Theories in Learning and Instruction: 1930-1940
1932 Thorndike’s Word Books
1935 Social Theories of Vilfredo Pareto- Mind and Society
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25. Society and Culture/ Key Events that determined the thinking of 1930-1940
1933 The Great Depression
1933 The 21st amendment

26. Advances in the World of Music 1930-1940
1935 – 1947 Big Band/Swing
1936 BASF engineers

27. Technological Advances and Innovations: 1940-1950
1941 Konrad Zuse invents the first computer controlled by software.
1946 Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven.

28. Business and Corporate Philosophies: The Nature of Work: 1940-1950
1940 Merill Lynch and Co. formed
1946 Mitsuba Company in Japan

29. Educational Theories in Learning and Instruction: 1940-1950
1946 Edgar Dale’s Cone of Learning
1953 Behavior therapy research project

30. Society and Culture/ Key Events that determined the thinking of 1940-1950
1941 Pearl Harbor
1949 NATO formed

31. Advances in the World of Music 1940-1950
1941 Les Paul/first solid-body electric guitar
1942 Bing Crosby releases "White Christmas"

32. Technological Advances and Innovations: 1950-1960
1951 Charles Ginsburg invented the first video tape recorder.
1958 Gordon Gould invents the laser.

33. Business and Corporate Philosophies: The Nature of Work: 1950-1960
1950 Gross National Product
1951 Diner’s Club Card

34. Educational Theories in Learning and Instruction: 1950-1960
1957 Skinner Operant Conditioning Paradigm
1959 The Premack Principle by David Premack

35. Society and Culture/ Key Events that determined the thinking of 1950-1960
1954 Brown Vs. Board of Education
1958 Sputnik

36. Advances in the World of Music 1950-1960
1956 Heartbreak Hotel
1959 Plane crash kills Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper

37. Technological Advances and Innovations: 1960-1970
1962 The Phillip’s Company audio cassette
1964 BASIC –computer language program

38. Business and Corporate Philosophies: The Nature of Work: 1960-1970
1962 Wal-Mart founded by Sam Walden
1969 Neil Armstrong-first man on the moon

39. Educational Theories in Learning and Instruction: 1960-1970
1962 Piaget’s Sensorimotor Practice Play
1966 Bruner’s Constructivist Theory 

40. Society and Culture/ Key Events that determined the thinking of 1960-1970
1960 Civil Rights Movement
1968 Assassination of Martin Luther King

41. Advances in the World of Music 1960-1970
1966 Jimi Hendrix
1969 Woodstock

42. Technological Advances and Innovations: 1970-1980
1971 Liquid Crystal Display-James Fergason
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1973 Ethernet invented

43. Business and Corporate Philosophies: The Nature of Work: 1970-1980
1972 Equal Pay Act
1979 Japan’s first cell phone network introduced

44. Educational Theories in Learning and Instruction: 1970-1980
The Society for Quantitative Analyses of Behavior (SQAB) was founded in 1978
Rehabilitation Act of 1973

45. Society and Culture/ Key Events that determined the thinking of 1970-1980
1970 Earth Day
1971 Twenty Sixth Amendment

46. Advances in the World of Music 1970-1980
1977 Cassettes
1979 Pulse code modulation

47. Technological Advances and Innovations: 1980-1990
1984 Apple Macintosh invented
1988 Digital Cell phones invented

48. Business and Corporate Philosophies: The Nature of Work: 1980-1990
1983 Personal Computer nomination by Time Magazine
1986 Tax Reform Act

49. Educational Theories in Learning and Instruction: 1980-1990
1984 Experimental learning styles
1990 Federal Law /The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

50. Society and Culture/ Key Events that determined the thinking of 1980-1990
1981 President Reagan Shot
1986 Challenger Explodes

51. Advances in the World of Music 1980-1990
MTV
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

52. Technological Advances and Innovations: 1990-2000
Father of the Internet Tim Berners-Lee 1990
1996 Web TV invented

53. Business and Corporate Philosophies: The Nature of Work: 1990-2000
1995 Ebay website founded
1997 World Investment Report

54. Educational Theories in Learning and Instruction: 1990-2000
1994 KIPP
1998 Reading Excellence Act is passed.

55. Society and Culture/ Key Events that determined the thinking of 1990-2000
1990 The Gulf War
1992 President Bill Clinton

56. Advances in the World of Music 1990-2000
1990 Piracy
1999 RAP became the top-selling music genre in America.

57. Technological Advances and Innovations: 2000-2010
2001 Apple Computer’s iPod
2005 You Tube invented

58. Business and Corporate Philosophies: The Nature of Work: 2000-2010
2001 Corporations Act
2008 Americans with Disabilities Acts Amendments

59. Educational Theories in Learning and Instruction: 2000-2010
2001 No Child Left Behind
2006 Flat Classroom Project

60. Society and Culture/ Key Events that determined the thinking of 2000-2010
2008 World Olympics
2009 Barack Obama elected president

61. Advances in the World of Music 2000-2010
2000 Limewire founded
2005 Anniversary of AACM