In November 2000 I was invited to give a presentation to a national conference of educators on the topic of Information and Communications Technology in Physical Education.
There is a link to this presentation on SlideShare.
I was reminded of this presentation when I received a Plurking Educators Diigo link from Grace Kat. Grace pointed to a post on The Evolution of Classroom Technology.
The technologies included there:
- Horn Book (1650)
- Ferule
- Magic Lantern
- School Slate
- Chalkboard
- Pencil (1900)
- Stereoscope
- Film Projector (1925)
- Radio
- Overhead Projector (1930)
- Ballpoint Pen
- Mimeograph
- Headphones (1950)
- Slide Rule
- Videotapes
- Reading Accelerator
- Skinner Teaching Machine
- Educational Television (1958)
- Photocopier
- Liquid Paper
- Filmstrip Viewer (1965)
- Handheld Calculator (1970)
- Scantron
- Plato Computer
- CD Rom Drive (1985)
- Handheld Graphing Calculator
- Interactive Whiteboard (1999)
- Iclicker
- XO Laptop
- iPad (2010)
At the time I accessed the article (5 May, 2011) there were 34 comments some of which were suggesting other technologies for inclusion.
This is a collection of the images used in The Evolution of Classroom Technology:
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