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Wave 1: Agricultural Revolution 8000 bc-1750
The first wave of transformation began when some prescient person about 10,000 years ago, probably a woman, planted a seed and nurtured its growth. The age of agriculture began, and its significance was that people moved away from nomadic wandering and hunting and began to cluster into villages and develop culture.
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Wave 2: Industrial Revolution 1750-1955
The second wave was an expression of machine muscle, the Industrial Revolution that began in the 18th century and gathered steam after America's Civil War. People began to leave the peasant culture of farming to come to work in city factories. It culminated in the Second World War, a clash of smokestack juggernauts, and the explosion of the atomic bombs over Japan.
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Strand 2: Technology advances and innovations
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Electric Cars, 25 % of cars sold were electric
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Average work week was 52 hours
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Strand 4 :Educational Theories of Learning
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Hubert Hoover invents the vacuum cleaner
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Richard Pearse of New Zealand supposedly successfully flew and landed a powered heavier-than-air machine
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is founded
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Einstein published the special theory of relativity
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Ivan Pavlov publishes his findings on Classical Conditioning
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First Hindu temple constructed in LA
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The first recorded instances in America of groups speaking in tongues occurred in Los Angeles
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Thomas Edison introduced the first talking motion picture
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1/3 of workforce were women, half of female workers were in agricultural or domestic services
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Radio tuners were invented that helped receive different radio stations
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Massachusetts passed minimum wage law for women and children
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Federal Government is allowed to impose an income tax
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Edward Lee Thorndike's book, Educational Psychology: The Psychology of Learning, is published
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The Assemblies of God denomination was founded
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John Dewey's Democracy and Education. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education is published
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Americas worst polio epidemic
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America enters WWI
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Garrett Morgan invents traffic signal
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- Women’s Bureau is created to ensure effective employment of women
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Individual Learning Plans provided a rationale for continued development of design rather than traditional instruction
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19th Amendment to the Constitution granting women the right to vote
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Influenza (the flu) and pneumonia spread Worldwide killing many thousands
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Jean Piaget conducts early psychological studies on his children, forming his theories of experience-based learning and his Stages of Intellectual Development
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first robot built
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child labor amendment proposed
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At a meeting in Maryland, the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church repealed a ban on dancing and theater attendance for church members
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John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in his Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology class.
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Stock Market Crashes
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Frank Whittle and Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain invent a jet engine
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- The Great Depression begins
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- The Great Depression
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Great Depression transforms religious landscape
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stereo records invented
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Ralph W. Tyler - Eight Year Study use of general and behavioral objectives and formative evaluation
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William Bagley writes Education and Emergent Man
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there was insulin used to control diabetes
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wages and hours act passed, bans child labor and sets work week at 40 hours
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Religious radio programming regulated
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As the US entered into war, women replaced the men in the workforce
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• emergence of the role of instructional technologist and instructional design team
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- First nuclear bomb
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Peter Goldmark invents color television
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Atomic Bomb invented
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8. 120,000 Americans were unemployed
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Supreme Court ruling protects Jehovah's Witnesses' right to solicitation
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Postwar America undergoes religious resurgence; nonbelievers viewed as anti-American
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Executive Order 9981, ending segregation in the United States military in signed
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Ralph Tyler publishes Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction
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31% of women work outside the home
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60% of Americans were classified as middle class
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The Power of Positive Thinking published
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B. F. Skinner publishes The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching
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Maslow introduces Heirarchy of Needs
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schools that had segregated children, had to bring them together
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Wave 3: Information Age 1955-Present
According to Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave is generally what we refer to as the Information Age. It arose as a result of advances in computer technology and the advent of the Internet.
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Disneyland opens for business
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first computer hard disk used
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In God We Trust becomes national motto
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computer modem invented
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Robert Miller- developed detailed task analysis procedures
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The first debate for a presidential election was televised
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John Glenn became the first man to orbit the earth - 3 times. It was a five hour flight
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JFK speaks about Catholic faith
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First computer video game invented
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Robert Glasser employed the term instructional system
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Supreme Court rules prayer in school is unconstitutional
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Equal Pay Act
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Medicare for citizens over 65
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first innternet invented
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Criterion Referenced Instruction (CRI) is introduced
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US explores moon
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Dot-matrix printer invented
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Watergate begins
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Amish children exempt from state education requirements
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Nixon accused of Watergate cover-up
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congress passed Employment Retirement Income Security Act
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Ruling against Bob Jones University draws conservative Christians back into politics
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak design the Apple IComputer
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Robert K. Jarvik invented artificial heart
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• computer-based instruction
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tax cut proposed that would reduce taxes by $750 billion over next 5 years
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highest unemployment rate since 1940
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Howard Gardner publishes Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
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Supreme Court sets new legal standard for religious messages in public displays
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Windows program invented
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Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
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Supreme Court overturns Louisiana law banning teaching of evolution in public schools
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Doppler radar invented by Christian Andreas Doppler
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America in severe drought
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60% of women with children under 6 works outside the home
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Minimum wage is raised to $3.80/hr
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• Constructivist Theory spreads
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• use of multimedia in instruction
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The Hubble telescope was sent to take pictures of planets and other space objects
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• development of CD-ROMS
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• Internet
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Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting animal sacrifice in religious worship
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digital answering machine invented
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Congress passes bill to ensure protection of free exercise
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Web TV invented
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Y2K: At midnight on December 31, 1999, the entire computer revolution might crash
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$700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act to ensure the banking system would not fail
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Jeroen J G van Merrienboer refines the Four-Component Instructional Design System
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David Wiley, develops Learning Object Design and Sequencing Theory
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The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing Civil Unions for same-sex couples
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• 300 gallons of black sludge is released into the Mississippi River causing an environmental disaster
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9/11 attacks; Muslims fight to redefine America as "Judeo-Christian-Muslim" nation
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Hybrid car invented by Toyota
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Youtube invented
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Supreme Court rules on two cases involving display of Ten Commandments
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economic recession deepens