Toffler’s Wave Theory

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Tofflers Wave Theory

• Timeline-Strand 1
• By Jason Vaught

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AGRICULTURAL AGE8000 B.C. - 1750

• Extended Families.
• The family business was Agriculture.
• People traveled by foot or horse and children
  were homeschooled or learned in a one room school.

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INDUSTRIAL AGE1750-1950

• Nuclear families.
• Top down bureaucratic factories.
• Students were grouped by age and grade levels.
  Automobiles and planes were introduced.

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INFORMATION AGE1955-2005

• One parent, two working parents.
• Automobiles, planes, computers, cell phones and
  Internet.

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COMMUNICATION AGE2005-CURRENT

• One parent, two working parents.
• Digital classrooms

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RESOURCE

• Toffler, Alvin (1980). The third wave. New York,
  NY Bantam Books.

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• Key technological advances and innovations for
  each decade

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1900-1910

• Thomas Edison invents the first talking motion
  picture in 1910
• Charles Strite invents the Pop Up toaster in 1919

• Hubert Booth invents the vacuum cleaner in 1901
• The Wright brothers heavier-than-air Kitty Hawk
  in 1903

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1920-1930

• Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal in
  1923
• The mechanical television was invented by John
  Logie Baird in 1925

• 1932 Edward Herbert Land invented the Polaroid
• 1933 Edwin Howard Armstrong created the Frequency
  modulation (FM)

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1940-1950

• John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first
  electronic digital computer in 1942
• 1946 Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven

• Charles Ginsburg invented the first video tape
  recorder in 1951
• Fortran computer language was invented in 1957

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1960-1970

• 1962- Audio cassette
• 1964- BASIC computer language was invented by
  John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz

• Robert Metcalfe and Xerox invented ethernet in
  1973
• 1979- Cell phones

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1980-1990

• 1981- the first IBM-PC was invented
• 1984- the Apple Macintosh was invented

• 1993- the pentium processor
• 1996- Web TV invented

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2000 and beyond

• 2001- Apple computers announced their portable
  music digital player the iPod

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Resources

• http//www.associatedcontent.com/article/17372/tec
  hnology_changes_and_inventions_in.html
• http//inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentiet
  h_3.htm

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• The nature of work Business and corporate
  philosophies

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1900-1910

• 1913 The U.S. government establishes the
  Department of Labor
• 1919 a record 4 million workers strike

• 24 million U.S. registered workers age 10 and
  above in 1900
• 1900- Only 19 of women of working age
  participated in the work force

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1920-1930

• 1920 Farm organization set up lobbies in
  Washington
• 1929 Stock market crashes on October 24 known as
  Black Thursday

• 1930-1933 The Great Depression begins
• 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act establishes the
  minimum wage

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1940-1950

• 1947 American investments abroad reached an all
  time high of 26.7 billion
• 1949 Fair Labor Standards Act outlaws child labor

• 1950-31 percent of U.S. women worked outside the
  home
• 1950- the first Xerox copy machined was produced

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1960-1970

• 1963 Congress passes the Equal Pay Act
• 1969 the first automated teller machine begins
  operating in Rockville Centre, N.Y.

• 1975-Founding of Microsoft
• 1970s- Watergate affair

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1980-1990

• 1980- Unemployment averages 7.1 percent
• On January 1, the average car costs 7,574

• 1998- Google was founded
• 1990s- Inception of the internet for commerce

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Resources
http//inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentiet
h_3.htm
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• Educational theories of learning and instruction

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1900-1910

• 1901- John Dewey interpreted the method of
  empirical science in educational terms
• 1902 Edward Thorndike offered the 1st course in
  educational measurements at Columbia University

• Frederic Burk developed on of the 1st systems of
  individual instruction at the San Francisco State
  Normal School in 1912
• Washburnes Winnetka Plan was developed in 1919

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1920-1930

• Henry Clinton Morrisons Morrison Plan
  (1925-1935)
• Lewins Field Theory and Science of Instruction
  were experimented in the late 1920s

• 1933- Ralph W. Tyler Eight Year Study use of
  general and behavioral objectives and formative
  evaluation
• 1934- William Bagley writes Education and
  Emergent Man

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1940-1950

• 1946 Edgar Dale developed the Cone of Experience
• 1949 Ralph Tyler publishes Basic Principles of
  Curriculum and Instruction

• 1954 B.F. Skinner publishes The Science of
  Learning and the Art of Teaching
• 1956 Benjamin Blooms Taxonomy of Educational
  Objectives

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1960-1970

• 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act
  (ESEA) was established
• 1969 First broadcast of Sesame Street

• 70s Criterion Referenced Instruction (CRI) is
  introduced by Robert Mager
• 1976- Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak desige the
  Apple I computer

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1980-1990

• 1983 Howard Gardner publishes Multiple
  Intelligences
• 1983 MD Merrill established the Component Display
  Theory

• 1995 Bernie Dodge and Tom March developed
  Webquest
• 1990s use of multimedia in instruction

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2000

• Jeroen J G van Merrienboer refines the Four
  Component Instructional Design System
• David Wiley develops Learning Object Design and
  Sequencing Theory (LODAS)

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Resources

• http//my-ecoach.com/project.php?id12152project_
  step26137

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• Nature of society and culture What key events
  determined the thinking of the decade?

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1900-1910

• 1903 Orville Wright heavier-than-air machine
  flight
• 1907 1st successful human blood transfusion

• 1916 Americas worst polio epidemic
• 1918 Spanish influenza killed over 500,000-U.S.
  worst single epidemic

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1920-1930

• 1920 19th Amendment to the Constitution granting
  women the right to vote
• 1928 Walt Disney dreams up Mickey Mouse

• 1931- The Empire State Building was completed
• 1938 Cloning envisioned by Dr. Hans Spemann in
  Germany

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1940-1950

• 1939-1945 World War II
• 1945 first vaccine for influenza

• 1954 Brown v. BOE of Topeka Kansas
• 1958 Bank of America issued the first bank credit
  card, BankAmericard (now Visa)

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1960-1970

• 1963 the assassination of John F. Kennedy
• 1965 Executive Order 11246 enforces affirmative
  action for first time

• 1972 President Nixon signs into law U.S. Fathers
  Day the 3rd Sunday of June
• 1973 Roe v. Wade

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1980-1990

• 1982 Michael Jackson releases Thriller
• 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

• 1993 Dont Ask, Dont Tell policy is instituted
  for the U.S. Military
• 1999 Columbine High School massacre

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2000

• Vermont becomes the first state in the country to
  legally recognize civil unions between gay or
  lesbian couples
• George W. Bush accepts the presidency after
  Florida ballot controversy

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References

• http//www.infoplease.com/spot/timelinearchive.htm
  l

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• Political

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• 1905-Russian Revolution begins
• 1907- 2nd Haque Peace Conference
• 1912- Balkan Wars
• 1914-1918 World War I
• 1920- 19th Amendment ratified (Womens suffrage)
• 1923- Adolf Hitlers Beer Hall Putsch in Munich
  fails
• 1930s-Great Depression
• Uprise of Facism in the 1930s
• World War II (1939-1945)

• 1942- Declaration of United Nations signed in
  Washington
• 1945 the U.S. and Soviet Union emerged as
  powerful nations
• Korean War (1950-1953)
• Vietnam War(1957-1975)
• The Great Chinese Famine (1959-1962)
• 1961 U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
• 1972- President Nixon Watergate Scandal
• 1973 Roe v. Wade

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• Global warming awareness began in the 80s
• The U.S. developed the Space Shuttle program in
  1981
• Operation Desert Storm- 1990
• Persian Gulf War (1990-1991)
• 2001- 9/11 Terrorist attack in New York

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Resources

• http//www.gwu.edu/nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB39/
• http//www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005251.html
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century
• http//watergate.info/