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Researching the history of educational technology felt akin to venturing down the rabbit hole into Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s Wonderland.\u00a0 There is a multitude of information to digest and depending on who you ask, you will get a different rendition of events that led up to today’s state of educational technology.\u00a0 The Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) define educational technology as the ” study and ethical application of theory, research, and best practices to advance knowledge as well as mediate and improve learning and performance through the strategic design, management and implementation of learning and instructional processes and resources ” (Aect.org, 2018).\u00a0 I am reminded of the Spaceship Earth ride at Disney World that gives its riders a lesson in the history of communication, which is a tool used for the spread of knowledge and facilitating learning.<\/p>\n
On this ride, the history of communication starts with cave drawings and then moves far through time to hieroglyphs and then to the invention of paper.\u00a0 Books mark a significant leap forward but not as substantial as the Gutenberg press.\u00a0 Then we see more modern devices like the telegraph, radio, motion pictures, television, the computer, the PC and finally the internet.\u00a0 It is interesting to note that all of the histories of educational technology that I have researched include all of these inventions that are represented in this ride.\u00a0 Some historical accounts begin in the 1600s with the advent of public education, citing books, blackboards and chalkboard slates being the predominant educational technologies until the 1900s.\u00a0 Some historical renditions begin in the 1900s with the invention of the magic lantern that projected images on glass plates and continue on a whirlwind ride of creative innovation after innovation that propelled our society from the information age in the 60s, 70s and 80s to the computer age in 1990 to the digital age in 1995 all the way to the present interactive age.<\/p>\n
One can dig up an unending stream of information about the history of educational technology but it is clear to me that there are parallel histories of the way we have come to communicate and the technology we use in education.\u00a0 These histories appear to be tied together in a way that is continually advancing on another in a perpetual quest for knowledge mobilization.<\/p>\n
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References<\/p>\n
A History of Education Technology. (n.d.). Retrieved from http:\/\/institute-of-progressive-education-and-learning.org\/a-history-of-education-technology\/<\/p>\n
Aect.org. (2018). Home – Association for Educational Communications and Technology. [online] Available at: https:\/\/www.aect.org\/index.php [Accessed 7 Sep. 2018].<\/p>\n
Gallegos, D. (2014, March 22). The Brief History of Educational Technology. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RDULupPTTvU<\/p>\n
Retterer, O. (2008, April 17). Instructional Technology: Looking Backward, Thinking Forward. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KdwEIi22Dv8<\/p>\n
SMARTEduEMEA. (2011, October 03). The history of technology in education. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UFwWWsz_X9s<\/p>\n
The Learning Machines. (2010, September 15). Retrieved from https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2010\/09\/19\/magazine\/classroom-technology.html?_r=0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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