Transcript Unit 2: Relationships Among Technologies and Connections

Mr. Brooks
Foundations of Technology
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Students will:
◦ Develop an understanding of the relationships
among technologies and connections with other
fields of study.
◦ Develop an understanding of the nature of science.
◦ Develop an understanding of the nature of
mathematics.
◦ Develop and understanding of the nature of
technology.
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Purpose of Lesson:
◦ To enable students to understand that
interrelationships exist among technologies and
between technology of other fields of study.
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Science is the study of the natural world
through observation, identification,
description, experimental investigation, and
theoretical explanations.
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Science is for answering questions and giving
us understanding.
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Mathematics is the science of patterns and
order and the study of measurement,
properties, and the relationships of
quantities; using numbers and symbols.
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Mathematics is a number tool. Through it we
are able to measure, analyze, describe, make
predictions, and communicate.
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Technology is human innovation in action
that involves the generation of knowledge
and processes to develop systems that solve
problems and extend human capabilities.
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Technology helps us meet our needs and
desires by creating hardware, software, and
systems.
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Mathematics, science, and technology as
enterprises share many values and features:
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Belief in order
Ideals of honesty and openness
The importance of criticism by colleagues
The essential role of the imagination
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Mathematics is a tool resource for both
science and technology.
Science provides a resource of information
for technology.
Technology provides tools and materials for
science.
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People as individuals and collectively as
society determine the technologies that will
be developed and employed.
Decisions, based on values, are made that
result in the promotion of some technologies
and the obstruction of others.
People in proper control of technology will
not promote detrimental technologies and
will not obstruct beneficial technologies out
of ignorance.
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Technology impacts the routines of daily
living, the ways we interact with people, the
way we provide for our livelihood, and the
course of history.
Technology impacts the way we earn a living.
All human affairs are impacted by technology.
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Technological innovation often results when
ideas, knowledge, or skills are shared within a
technology, among technologies, or across
other fields.
Technological ideas are sometimes protected
through the use of patenting.
Technological progress promotes the
advancement of science and mathematics.
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There are different traditions in science about
what is investigated and how, but they all
have in common certain basic beliefs about
the value of evidence, logic, and good
arguments.
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Developments in science or technology often
stimulate innovations in mathematics by
presenting new kinds of problems to be
solved.
Developments in mathematics often stimulate
innovations in science and technology.
Technology usually affects society more
directly than science because it solves
practical problems and serves human needs
(and may create new problems and needs).