2. After each of the next slides, there will be a discussion about: How each invention is important? Which invention has helped education the most? (no perfect answers here )

3. 1440 - First Printing Press with moveable letters / numbers 1565 – First pencil invented 1656 – First accurate clock (accurate to 10 seconds a day) 1702 – First Daily Newspaper (Daily Courant – London) 1803 – First public railway (Surrey Iron Railway – London)

4. 1809 – First Educational Patent 1827 – First Horse Drawn School Bus 1835 – Invention of Telegraph (Samuel Morse) 1876 – Invention of Telephone (Alexander Graham Bell) 1877 – Invention of Sound Recording (Edison)

5. 1879 – Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb 1879 – First automobile (Benz - Germany) 1882 – Invention of Gramophone (Bell) 1884 – Eastman Roll Film 1887 – Invention of Records 1909 – First Phonograph in a School

6. 1911 – First Record Players for Teaching 1912 – First Educational Radio in USA 1914 – First mass produced (affordable) US car (Henry Ford) 1922 – Portable Radio Early 1920’s – First motorized school bus 1927 – Movies with Sound 1932 – BBC Television Begins broadcasting

7. 1933 – Debut Educational Television 1935 – Invention of Reel to Reel Players 1935 – Modern Paperbacks 1935 – Ladislas Biro invented the ball- point pen 1936 – First Computer Invented (Z1) 1949 – First Xerox Machine (1947 first copier)

8. Early 1950’s – Early Automated Concordance Work 1951 – First mass produced computer 1951 – Videotape Recorder (VTR) 1953 – Computer Printer 1959 – First Computer Assisted Learning Program 1960 – PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations)

9. 1967 – Time-shared, Interactive, Computer-Controlled Educational Television 1968 – Invention of portable cassette player 1969 – ARPAnet started (predecessor of the internet) 1971 – Introduction of Floppy Disk 1972 – First Micro Computer (IBM 8008) 1981 – IBM 8082

10. 1982 – CD Player commercially available 1985 – First Microsoft Windows 1991 – World Wide Web went public 1995 – DVDs commercially available 1997 – first successful MP3’s 2002 – Web 2.0 2007 – iPhone

11. CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) started as field in 1980’s Away from linear tape Towards multimedia learning environment ICT (Information Communication Technology) TELL (Technology Enhanced Language Learning

12. Web 2.0 - Social Media / you tube / wikipedia Mobile Language Learning (Smart Phones / Aps) Virtual Worlds – Through Avatars exploring world set in foreign languages What do you think?

13. What technology do you regularly use in the classroom?