Toffler’s Three Waves

Toffler’s Three Waves

Sadie Rodgers

Strand One: Toffler’s First WaveBC-1700

• Agriculture age• Extended families were

farmers• Oral education, one

room schools• Transportation was on

foot and horses

Strand One: Second Wave1700-1955

• Industrial Revolution Age• Family-nuclear• Factories and mass

production• Automobiles, telephones,

overnight mail and trains• education-books and video • Students were grouped

together by age and grades• T.V. and film strips were

used

Strand One: Third Wave1955-1990

• One or two parent families

• Collaboration and team work are important in the work place

• Flexible hours• Instant communication• Digital hyper kids• Internet and computers

Fourth Wave: Communication

• Internet and computer• Increases capacity of

collaboration and communication with others

• Defined by the internet• New technologies in

education

Strand Two: Technology1900- Count Zeppelin

invented the zeppelin1903- Wright brothers-

modern aviation is born

1910- Thomas Edison first motion picture is demonstrated

1918- Edwin Howard Armstrong invents the super heterodyne radio

Strand Two: Technology 1921- the first robot is built 1925- John Logie Baind invents the

mechanical T.V. 1930- Vannevar Bush invents the analog

computer 1932- Karl Guthe Jansky accidently

discovers radio waves 1939- First digital computer prototype is

completed by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry

Strand Two: Technology 1945- The atomic bomb 1946 Percy Spencer invents the

microwave 1951 first video tape recorder is invented

by Charles Ginsburg 1955- first nuclear submarine 1964- IBM introduced the world to the

mass produced computer operating system

1965- PDP-8 (mini computer)

Strand Two: Technology

1970- floppy disk 19766- Apple I computer designed 1979- cell phone 1983- “personal computer” 1984- Apple’s Macintosh 1990- World Wide Web is invented by Time

Berners Lee 1993- the Pentium processor 1985- Microsoft Windows

Strand Two: Technology 2001- Satellite radio 2001- iPods 2003- Skype is developed by Niklas

Zennstrom and Jans Friis, people can make internet calls for free

2007- iPhone 2010- iPad 2011-iPad 2 2012- iPad 3rd generation

Strand Two Resource Links http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone

/timeline/timeline_text.html http://

ehistory.osu.edu/world/TimeLineDisplay.cfm?Era_id=16

http://news.cnet.com/2009-1041-6054524.html

Strand Three: Work: Business and corporate philosophies by decade:1903-Ford motor company is formed1908-electric toaster is patented by General

Electric1913- Labor Department 1914- Panama Canal opens for traffic1929- Wall Street Crash1930- The Great Depression begins1933- The New Deal1935-Social Security Act1938- Fair Labor Standards Act

Strand Three: Work: Business and corporate philosophies by decade1947- Marshall Plan helped with economic

recover in Europe after World War Two1947- Taft-Harley Act1955- AFI and CIO merge1963- Equal Pay Act1993- North American Trade Agreement1998- President Clinton releases 199 federal

budget that illustrates the first balanced budget since 1969

Strand Three Resource Linkshttp://ehistory.osu.edu/world/TimeLineDisplay

.cfm?Era_id=16

Strand Four: Education: Important theories of learning and instruction by decade 1902- John Dewey publishes The

Child and the Curriculum 1908- E.B. Hacy publishes The

Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading

1910- John Dewey publishes How We Think

1911- first Montessori school opens 1913- John B. Watson was

responsible for the Behaviorist revolution

Strand Four: Education: Important theories of learning and instruction by decade

1913- Edward Lee Thondike publishes “Educational Psychology: The Psychology of Learning”

1926- The first SAT is administered

1927- Edward Thondike- The measurement of Intelligence

1929- Jean Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development

Strand Four: Education cont.

1932-The Fundamentals of Learning are published by Edward L. Thondike

1946- Edward L. Thondike constructed a table of word frequency in English

1946 Edgar Dale developed the cone of experience

1953- B.F. Skinner’s Operant condition 1954- Brown vs. Board of Education 1956- Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy

Strand Four: Education cont. 1960’s inclusion in classrooms 1962- Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of

Proximal Development 1965-Robert Gagne wrote The

Conditions of Learning 1996- Jerome Bruner’s Cognitive

Learning Theory is offered as an alternative to behaviorism

1970- “The Science of Education” is published

Strand Four: Education cont. 1972- Title IX is passed 1973- The Rehabilitation Act 1981- John Holt “Teach your Own: A

Hopeful Path for Education” opens up people’s minds to the idea of homeschooling

1982-Madeline C. Hunter introduces the direct instruction teaching model

1983- The Component Display Theory established by MD Merrill

Strand Four: Education cont. 1983- Howard Gardner develops the

Theory of Multiple Intelligences 1993- Martin and Jacqueline Brooks’

“In Search of Understanding Constructivist Classrooms”

1994- Goals 2000 is signed by President Bill Clinton

1996- James Banks “Multicultural Education: Transformative Knowledge and Action”

Strand Four: Education cont. 2001- No Child Left Behind 2003- Ruth Clark published Efficiency

in Learning- this deals with applying the cognitive load theory to distance learning

Strand Four Resource

http://my-ecoach.com/modules/custombuilder/popup_printable.php?id=12152

Strand Five: Society and Culture

• 1900- U.S. participates in the Boxer Rebellion

• 1912- Titanic sinks• 1914- World War I begins• 1918- World War I ends• 1920- Panama Canal opens• 191928- Disney releases first

Mickey Mouse cartoon• 1932- Amelia Earhart is the

first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

• 1939-World War II begins

1939-Gone with the Wind and the Wizard of Oz released

1939 World War II begins 1939- “The Grapes of Wrath” by John

Steinbeck was published 1941- Japan bombs Pear Harbor 1942- FDR authorizes Japan Internment

camps 1949- Mao Tse-tung’s communist forces

gain control of China

Strand Five: Society and Culture

1954- Polio vaccine invented by Dr. Jonas Salk 1954- Birth control invented 1962- Cuban missile crisis 1968- Assassination of JFK 1971-26th Amendment gives eighteen years the

right to vote 1973-Roe vs. Wade 1981-doctors diagnose the first AIDS case 1989- Berlin Wall comes down 1993- Toni Morrison becomes the first African

American wins Nobel prize for literature

Strand Five: Society and Culture

1995- Oklahoma City bombing 1999- Columbine High School Shooting 2001- World Trade Center terrorist attacks 2008- Obama becomes the first black

president 2011- Osama Bin Laden is dead

Strand Five: Society and Culture

http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/TimeLineDisplay.cfm?Era_id=16

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/timeline/timelineO.cfm

Strand Five Resource Links

STRAND SIX: RELIGIOUS 1905-Law of Separation of the Churches

and the State in France 1906- In San Francisco the first Hindu

temple is built 1915- A series of pamphlets are

published by the Conservative Protestants called “The Fundamentals”

1921- Dr. Margaret Alice Murray helped the world look at witchcraft with an unbiased light

STRAND SIX: RELIGIOUS 1930- Rastafarian movement, Nation of Islam

is founded by Wallace D. Ford (combination of Black Nationalist ideas and traditional Islam)

1938-Kristallnacht: Night of Broken Glass 1940- Jehovah Witnesses’ right to solicitation

is protected by a Supreme Court ruling 1948- Israel is created 1952- Scientology is created by L. Ron

Hubbard 1954- Wicca Gerald Gardner- first to give

witches side of the story

STRAND SIX: RELIGIOUS 1960’s Neopaganism following grows 1962- Church of All Worlds: 1st neopagan

church is founded 1966- Church of Satan is founded by Anton

Szandor LaVey 1972- Amish children are exempted from the

state educational system 1976- Women are now ordained by the Episcopal Church 1981- Pope John Paul II is shot 1989- Pat Robertson founds the Christian

Coalition

STRAND SIX: RELIGIOUS 1991-Imam W. Deen Mohammed

delivers the first Muslim prayer to the U.S. Senate

1993- Congress pass a law that guarantees free religious exercise

2001- Osama Bin Laden declares holy war

2001- Office of Faith Based Initiatives are established by George W. Bush

2007- Mormon presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, gives a speech about his religion

2009- President Obama continues support of George W. Bush’s faith based organizations

2009- Church of Scientology in France is fined for defrauding new recruits

STRAND SIX RESOURCE LINKS http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/timelin

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