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Scope of Technology
Technology Design and Application
Negative Affects of Technology
• Pollution
• Crime
• Unemployment
Study of Technological History
• Technological knowledge use in the past can be applied to current situations to help people lead better and easier lives.
Agricultural Knowledge
• Knowledge about using machines and systems to grow harvest, and preserve foods and to raise livestock.
Construction Knowledge
• Knowledge about using machines and systems to erect buildings and other structures on the sites where they will be used.
Energy Knowledge
• Knowledge about using machines and systems to convert, transmit, and apply energy.
Information and Communication Knowledge
• Knowledge about using machines and systems to collect, process, and exchange information and ideas.
Medical Knowledge
• Knowledge about using machines and systems to treat diseases and maintain the health of living beings.
Designing
• Actions used to develop new or improved products or systems are called _____________ actions
Producing
• Actions used to build products, erect buildings, grow and harvest crops, communicate information, and transport cargo are called
_________________________________
actions.
Using• Actions involved in selection, operating,
and servicing products are called
_________________________________actions.
Assessing
• Actions used to determine the value or impact of technology are called
_________________________________actions.
Language of Technology
• Involves:
vocabulary/words
technical drawings
Technology
• Using tools, materials, and processes to make things that help us live better.
Technological History
• Viewing the growth of civilization by focusing on the advancements people have made in developing and using tools.
Scientific Knowledge
• Knowledge about the laws and principles governing the natural world
Humanities Knowledge
• Knowledge about the development and functioning of social and political systems and ways to express creative thought.
Descriptive Knowledge
• Knowledge of ways to use words and numbers to describe relationships, events, and ideas.
Technological Knowledge
• Knowledge about using tools, materials, and processes to make and operate systems.
Technological Actions
• The actions people take to develop, produce, use, and assess technological products and systems.
Design
• A common technique used to create products or systems. It is a plan for a device or product. The process of design begins with defining a problem. It also involves gathering information, developing and testing finding solutions, retesting, and selecting the best solution.
Produce
• To make or grow
Use
• To select an appropriate product and determine which technological service to put into practice.
Assess
• To decide or determine.
Assessment
• The final stage in the testing of a solution.
Technological Assessment
• Evaluating the positive and negative impacts caused by technology on people, society, and the environment.
Language
• Each area has its own language. Words have multiple and different meanings depending on where and when it is used.
• Mouse
• Virus
• Debugging
Vocabulary
• Technology has developed a vocabulary to describe actions with tools and the actions of these actions.
• If you were to look in a 1800s dictionary you would not find the words microchip, airplane, television, and photography in it.
Working Drawings
• An accurately measured and detailed drawing used as a guide to workers in constructing a structure or machine or of any part of one.
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