Technology Introduction
We live in a society that increasingly depends upon technology. Citizens who understand and are comfortable with the concepts and workings of modern technology are better able to participate fully in society and in the global marketplace. For these reasons and others, a growing number of voices are calling for the mandatory study of technology by school-aged children, world-wide.
Technology education developers should embrace change as society explores, creates, designs, and discovers new trends in the human built world. Technology educators must ride each new wave of technology and implement the most current teaching strategies in order to prepare for the 21st Century, Technology Education (T.E.) programs can be innovative, flexible and designed to be integrated across the disciplines.
In 1994, the International Technology Education Association (ITEA) launched its Technology for All Americans Project (TfAAP) as a means to advance student attainment of technological literacy. Technological literacy is far more than the ability to use technological tools. Technologically literate citizens employ systems-oriented thinking as they interact with the technological world, cognizant of how such interaction affects individuals, our society, and the environment. Technological literacy is the ability to use, manage, assess, and understand technology. It involves knowledge, abilities, and the application of both knowledge and abilities to real-world situations. Citizens of all ages benefit from technological literacy, whether it is obtained through formal or informal educational environments.
Tech Teen's should experience team building concepts and practice real world applications in their learning process. Motivation for learning, productivity, skills, and performance are enhanced when students have the opportunity to use technology tools that have been integrated into the classroom. When students are assigned hands-on, multi sensory tasks and allowed to be in control of their learning the outcomes teem with innovative project creations.
A new form of learning environment for educators to capture is using the Internet and designing Web Quests, Tours and Tutorials for students to enhance their learning of a T. E. class.
To make the technology curriculum even more convenient and flexible a T.E. web site has been created which offers Web Quests, Tours and Tutorials to students from any computer wired to the Internet (distributed learning). This teaching endeavor tears down the classroom walls permitting students to navigate the superhighway into uncharted territory of cyberspace capturing vast knowledge in the new frontier........ "the information age".
-Teaching Tomorrow's Innovators-
Last updated: 01/31/04