The document discusses the history of education technology from the late 1950s to the mid-1990s. It notes that the National Defense Education Act brought new technologies like computers into schools in the late 1950s, mainly for vocational programs. By the late 1960s, schools began incorporating computers into vocational training programs. Then in the 1980s, computers proliferated in schools as the Apple II, IBM PC, and clones became available and commercial educational software was developed.

1. ICT Applied to English Teaching -2011
Assignment 1 ‘History of Education Technology’
1) The National Defense Education Act brings some new technology into schools,
primarily in vocational education, in the year ................
2) School vocational training programs begin to include compter ………………..
in 1967.
counseling
design
maintenance
3) Intel’s first were developed together with the first microcomputers.
4) Some schools adopt mainframes and ........................ in 1975.
5) In 1983 …………………… PC clones proliferate.
Apple
HP
IBM
6) What do commercial software manufacturers first develop in 1984?
These manufacturers start to develop
7) In 1990 schools are using video-discs and object-oriented .........................
authoring tools are in wide use.
8) In 1995 most CAI is delivered on
diskettes
CD-ROM disks
slides
9) is widely discussed as businesses begin to provide services and advertising
using web pages.
10) becomes more useful and interesting to students as graphics and video are
incorporated.