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.