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To explore the history of educational technologies, I thought it would be interesting to see just how much, and what, I could learn using a relatively new form of educational technology – infographics – as my sole source of information.<\/p>\nTo explore the history of educational technologies, I thought it would be interesting to see just how much, and what, I could learn using a relatively new form of educational technology – infographics – as my sole source of information.<\/p>\n
According to Wikipedia<\/a>, infographics are “graphic visual representations of\u00a0information,\u00a0data\u00a0or\u00a0knowledge\u00a0intended to present information quickly and clearly.” (Incidentally, the original source of this definition was cited as\u00a0Public Relations Writing: Form and Style (<\/i><\/span>Newsom & Haynes, 2004), which I’m fairly certain was a textbook I used in my undergraduate studies.)<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n The phrase I entered in Google Search, without quotation marks, was “history of educational technologies infographic.” Here’s what I discovered as a result.<\/p>\n This infographic starts in 1860 and continues up to 2015, mentioning in chronological order: the blackboard, radio, overhead projector, filmstrips, videotapes, BF Skinner’s teaching machine, photocopier, whiteboard, BASIC programming language, scantrons, portable computers, BBC micro, world wide web, personal digital assistants, social media, ipads and tablets, raspberry pi, BBC micro-bit, and virtual reality.<\/p>\n The most startling realization? I’m not sure if it’s that so many of these inventions are still in use, or that I don’t recognize some of them at all.<\/p>\n This infographic starts in 1947 and continues up to 2014, mentioning in chronological order: commercially available computers, hard disks, microprocessors, ARPANET, BASIC programming language, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, MS-DOS,\u00a0the internet, Microsoft Word, .com domains, laptops, computer viruses, Amazon, Windows 95, Ebay, Google, Napster,\u00a0Blogger, the dot com burst, Wikipedia, Windows XP, Myspace, WordPress, OpenStack, Twitter, Magento, Facebook, YouTube, responsive web design, and HTML5.<\/p>\n It’s interesting the only overlap between this infographic and the evolution of technology in schools is mention of BASIC programming and the internet.<\/p>\n This infographic starts in 1890 and continues up to “today,” which appears to be anything post-2010. In chronological order, the infographic mentions the chalkboard, filmstrips, BF Skinner teaching machine, overhead projector, educational programming, scantrons, desktop computers, the internet, interactive whiteboards, YouTube, audience-response devices, smartphones and tablets, and interactive mobile apps.<\/p>\n This infographic is most similar to the first one I looked at, including many of the same elements, though referring to them by different names (e.g., world wide web vs. Internet, blackboard vs. chalkboard).<\/p>\n The only common element across all three infographics was the internet, and there seemed to be little agreement on when the internet was actually introduced. The first infographic mentioned “the world wide web became available to students in schools” in 1990; the second infographic said the internet was “born” in 1983, and the third infographic listed the internet as being available in schools as of 1996.<\/p>\n While looking at a visual representation of educational technologies in an infographic format was definitely user-friendly and easy to understand, the reliability of the content itself is up for debate, reinforcing for me that no matter the educational technology used for learning, content and credibility are always critical.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To explore the history of educational technologies, I thought it would be interesting to see just how much, and what, I could learn using a relatively new form of educational technology – infographics – as my sole source of information. 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An infographic on the history of technology<\/a><\/h3>\n
An infographic on the history of classroom technology<\/a><\/h3>\n
Final thoughts<\/h3>\n