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TECHNOLOGY DURING THE STONE AGE, BRONZE AGE, AND IRON

AGE
A. Stone Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to
make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly
3.4 million years,[1] and ended between 4,000 BCE and 2,000 BCE, with the advent
of metalworking.[2] Though some simple metalworking of malleable metals, particularly
the use of gold and copper for purposes of ornamentation, was known in the Stone Age, it
is the melting and smelting of copper that marks the end of the Stone Age. Stone Age
Tools Most tools in the Stone Age were created to help humans survive. These tools were
used for hunting, agriculture, and food preparation. They were made out of different
stones and this is the reason that this time period is known as the Stone Age.
Fire is an example of Stone Age technology.
A. Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historic period, approximately 3300 BC to 1200 BC, that was
characterized by the use of bronze, in some areas writing, and other early features of
urban civilization.
Bronze age (c. 3500 – 700 BC) were the first era to create technologies by refine, smelt
and cast metal ores. Spears, daggers, swords, and axes were created by early civilizations
in the Middle East by merging bronze or copper alloys.
Major developments with technology and weapons occurred during the Bronze Age as
well. First, the writing system was a huge innovation which took place during the
Bronze Age that initially began with pictograms, ideograms, and then to cuneiform.
Cuneiform was wedge-shaped writing found on clay tablets of the written language.
B. Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of
the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone
Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic). The concept
has been mostly applied to Iron Age Europe and the Ancient Near East, but also, by
analogy, to other parts of the Old World.
Iron age technology saw the use of smelting, smithing, quenching, and welding to
fabricate stronger tools. Notable inventions during this era include plow tips, chariots,
coins, tunnels, and iron gates. There are other iron age tools, weapons, and technologies
that we cannot cover in this article.
Technology Education in Medieval and Modern Period

Medieval technology is the technology used in medieval Europe under Christian rule. After

the Renaissance of the 12th century, medieval Europe saw a radical change in the rate of new
inventions, innovations in the ways of managing traditional means of production, and economic
growth.[2] The period saw major technological advances, including the adoption of gunpowder,
the invention of vertical windmills, spectacles, mechanical clocks, and greatly improved water
mills, building techniques (Gothic architecture, medieval castles), and agriculture in general
(three-field crop rotation).
The development of water mills from their ancient origins was impressive, and extended from
agriculture to sawmills both for timber and stone. By the time of the Domesday Book, most large
villages had turnable mills, around 6,500 in England alone.[3] Water-power was also widely used
in mining for raising ore from shafts, crushing ore, and even powering bellows.
Many European technical advancements from the 12th to 14th centuries were either built on
long-established techniques in medieval Europe, originating
from Roman and Byzantine antecedents, or adapted from cross-cultural exchanges through
trading networks with the Islamic world, China, and India. Often, the revolutionary aspect lay
not in the act of invention itself, but in its technological refinement and application to political
and economic power. Though gunpowder along with other weapons had been started by Chinese,
it was the Europeans who developed and perfected its military potential, precipitating European
expansion and eventual imperialism in the Modern Era.

In the modern era, technology has become the driving force of the world and has led to many
positive advancements, however when incorporating technological advancements into war, it can
be said that technology has had more negative effects rather than positive ones. Technological
advancements have had a negative effect on wars because the number of casualties increases,
civilians are more susceptible to getting accidentally killed, and arms of mass destruction can
easily fall into the wrong hands. It is only when looking at World War I and World War II that that
technological advancements are shown to truly cause devastating effects to not only the people, but
the environment as well. It is important to note that, while yes, other wars…show more content…
It is important to understand what artillery was and how something like it could cause the death of
many.

History of ICT (Information and Communication Technology)

ICT is an acronym that stands
for Information and
Communications Technology.
The first commercial computer
was the UNIVAC I, developed
by John Eckert and John W.
Mauchly in 1951. It was used by
the Census Bureau to predict the
outcome of the 1952 presidential
election.
Information technology has been
around for a long, long time.
Basically as long as people have
been around, information
technology has been around
because there were always ways
of communicating through
technology available at that
point in time. There are 4 main
ages that divide up the history of
information technology.
Ages
Premechanical
The premechanical age is the
earliest age of information
technology. It can be defined as
the time between 3000B.C. and
1450A.D. We are talking about a
long time ago. When humans
first started communicating they
would try to use language or
simple picture drawings known
as petroglyths which were
usually carved in rock. Early
alphabets were developed such as
the Phoenician alphabet.
Mechanical
The mechanical age is when we
first start to see connections
between our current technology
and its ancestors. The mechanical
age can be defined as the time
between 1450 and 1840. A lot of
new technologies are developed
in this era as there is a large
explosion in interest with this
area. Technologies like the slide
rule (an analog computer used
for multiplying and dividing)
were invented. Blaise Pascal
invented the Pascaline which was
a very popular mechanical
computer. Charles Babbage
developed the difference engine
which tabulated polynomial
equations using the method of
finite differences.
Electromechanical
Now we are finally getting close
to some technologies that
resemble our modern-day
technology. The
electromechanical age can be
defined as the time between 1840
and 1940. These are the
beginnings of
telecommunication. The
telegraph was created in the early
1800s. Morse code was created
by Samuel Morse in 1835. The
telephone (one of the most
popular forms of communication
ever) was created by Alexander
Graham Bell in 1876. The first
radio developed by Guglielmo
Marconi in 1894. All of these
were extremely crucial emerging
technologies that led to big
advances in the information
technology field.
Electronic
The electronic age is wha we
currently live in. It can be
defined as the time between 1940
and right now. The ENIAC was
the first high-speed, digital
computer capable of being
reprogrammed to solve a full
range of computing problems.
This computer was designed to
be used by the U.S. Army for
artillery firing tables. This
machine was even bigger than
the Mark 1 taking up 680 square
feet and weighing 30 tons -
HUGE. It mainly used vacuum
tubes to do its calculations.

Contribution of the following key persons to Educational Technology

1. Montessori, Maria
* Italian educator and doctor (1870–1952)
Her main accomplishment:
The Montessori Method was created.
graded exercises to ensure that each student's learning is done in the right order.

2. C. I. Babbage
* English mathematician (1791–1871), also referred to as the "Father of Computers"
His main accomplishment:
In 1883, the Computing Machine lay the groundwork for the contemporary computer.
Analytical Process
- Charles Babbage, an English mathematician and computer pioneer, envisioned a
mechanical general-purpose computer.
Changing Engine
- A mechanical automated calculator with a polynomial function tabulator.

3. Benjamin Bloom
In his book "The Taxonomy of Academic Aims, The Classification of Academic Goals,
Reference Work I: Psychological Feature Domain," American author *(1956) introduced the
taxonomy of academic objectives.

4. Dwight W. Allen
* (born in 1931) has been a longtime advocate for educational reform and a professor of
education.
His main accomplishment:
approach for microteaching, in 1962