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| Year | Film | Radio | Television | Computers |
| Late 1800s | Silent commercial films enter American culture | |||
| Early 1900s | films produced for the classroom | |||
| 1910 | NY public school board adopts films for instructional use | |||
| 1917 | Chicago schools implement a "visual education" department | |||
| 1920 | Radio Division of US Dept of Commerce begins to license commercial and educational stations | |||
| 1923 | Haaren HS in NYC is first public school to
use radio to teach a class. (Accounting) CA schools broadcast penmanship, arithmetic, and history |
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| 1924 | "Little Red Schoolhouse" airs weekly on WLS in Chicago | |||
| 1931 | 25 states have units in the dept. of Ed devoted to film and related media | |||
| 1932 | Benjamin Darrow publishes Radio: The Assistant Teacher | |||
| 1939 | An L.A. HS experiments with classroom use of TV | |||
| 1940s | CBS American School of the Air estimates about 8 to 10 million students listening to its weekly programs | |||
| 1940-41 | Ohio finds that the American School of the Air is used "regularly" in 3% of rural schools, 18% of urban schools, 8% of elementary schools, and 5% of secondary schools, estimating a classroom audience of 500,000-1 million. | |||
| 1947 | Closed circuit broadcasts begin in Philly public schools | |||
| 1953 | KUHT in Houston, TX begins broadcasting | |||
| FCC allocates 242 channels for Ed purposes | ||||
| Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education underwrites the initial use of TV in schools and colleges to relieve the shortage of teachers | ||||
| 1958 | National Defense Education Act (NDEA) | |||
| 1962 | US office of Ed grants $32 million to the development of classroom TVs | |||
| 1970s | Citizens groups petition the Federal Communications Commission (FCC's launch number of revision prs designed to educate inform children | |||
| Early 80's | Deregulation of TV industry; educational programming children diminishes | Number of computers available for instructional use tripled within 18 months | ||
| 1984 | of 82,000 schools in the nation, 56,000
(68%) had a least one computer (terminal or micro) for an average of one machine for every
92 students. the average elementary school had 5 machines, while the typical secondary school had just over 13. |
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| 1985 | 92% secondary schools had at least one machine available for instruction; for elementary schools, 82%. |
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