A forty-five year historical perspective.19622008

The programming language FORTRAN IV is created.

The first 8" floppy diskette drive was introduced.

The first 5.25-inch floppy disk is invented.

The first Tandy Color computer is introduced.

The 3.5-inch floppy diskette is introduced.

MS-DOS version 1.25 is released.

The World Wide Web is launched to the public.

Microsoft releases Windows 95.

Amazon.com officially opens.

More e-mail is sent than postal mail in USA.

The birth of Google.

Digital Video Discs / (DVDs) go on sale.

The Intel Pentium II 233 MHz processor is released.

Internet weblogs begin to appear.

The Intel Pentium III 500 MHz is released.

Microsoft Windows 2000 is released.

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act was created.

Microsoft unveils the Xbox.

Apple introduces the iPod.

Approximately 1 billion PCs have been shipped worldwide since the mid-'70s.

Cartoon turtle named "Dewie" introduced to help promote Internet safety and security.

MySpace is founded.

Google announces Gmail.

YouTube is founded. 35,000 videos were uploaded daily. 30 million clips were viewed each day in 2005.

There are 24.2 million MySpace users.

The Intel Core 2 Extreme was released.

The blu-ray was introduced.

Apple releases the Apple iPhone.

Microsoft releases Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007.

February 26, 2008 48% of teenagers bought no CDs at all in 2007, up from 38% in 2006.

94% of youth ages 12-17 who have Internet access say they use the Internet for school research and 78% say they believe the Internet helps them with schoolwork.

58% of online teens report using Web sites that had been set up specifically for their school or for a particular class. Pew Internet & American Life Project 2001 research

41% of online teens say they use email and instant messaging to contact teachers or classmates about schoolwork.

21st Century SkillsStudents will use engaging technology in collaborative inquiry-based learning environments with teachers who are willing and able to use technology to assist them in transforming knowledge and skills into products, solutions and new information.ISTE NETS-2007

What kind of classroom world are you making for your students?

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