Start Date: October 13, 2008
End Date: October 17, 2008
What is Technology Education?
Technology Education is a school subject – the ONLY school subject – that teaches technological literacy. Technology is the innovation, change, or modification of the natural environment to satisfy perceived human needs and wants. In other words, technology is what happens anytime a human invents or innovates something. Think of the wheel, or the printing press, or the computer. But technology isn’t only things. It is important to remember that technology doesn’t happen without human inspiration and action.
If students have technological literacy, they are equipped with basic knowledge, understanding, and abilities about technology that will help them deal with new technologies they encounter throughout their lives. Our world is becoming so much more technological so quickly, we need to prepare students with basic knowledge about technology so they can cope with a future we can’t even imagine. Technology is much more than computers. It also includes other information and communication systems as well as medicine, agriculture, energy and power, transportation, manufacturing, and construction.
During the week-long celebration of technology education, the community is invited to visit the high schools in
