Mr. Brooks Foundations of Technology

 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.

 Purpose of Lesson: ◦ To enable students to understand that interrelationships exist among technologies and between technology of other fields of study.

 Science is the study of the natural world through observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanations.

 Science is for answering questions and giving us understanding.

 Mathematics is the science of patterns and order and the study of measurement, properties, and the relationships of quantities; using numbers and symbols.

 Mathematics is a number tool. Through it we are able to measure, analyze, describe, make predictions, and communicate.

 Technology is human innovation in action that involves the generation of knowledge and processes to develop systems that solve problems and extend human capabilities.

 Technology helps us meet our needs and desires by creating hardware, software, and systems.

 Mathematics, science, and technology as enterprises share many values and features: ◦ Belief in order ◦ Ideals of honesty and openness ◦ The importance of criticism by colleagues ◦ The essential role of the imagination

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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).