This will be the area where we discuss and share what we captured from the student STL teaching experiences:

Here's my capture from today (go ahead and change, add to, etc. - we don't necessarily want length, but rather refinement and clarity.)

STL 1 Students will develop an understanding of the characteristics and scope of technology.

Anthony = STL 1: Develop an understanding and appreciation for technology (relationships, tools, characteristics, future trends)

Technology is something that mankind has developed since the beginning of time to make the world around him a more comfortable place. We are surrounded by technology and it includes just about everything from computers to toothbrushes. Technology influences just about every aspect of our world.

Technology is man altering nature. Easy ways to teach it are showing it in nature/ environment.

Technology progresses and the world gets smaller. We teach how to use and understand technology around us.

STL 2 Students will develop an understanding of the core concepts of technology.

Erica = STL 2: Teaching students the Core concepts of technology, "breaking it down".

Things to consider:

Interactions of technological systems: understanding what systems are, the process to create, possible uses, resource costs, machines used, requirements, affordances, etc.

System: processing, maintenance, management.

The core concepts of technology. What do we need to know to put it into a simple area. Managing technology and understanding it. Understanding our relationship with technology. This then becomes the actual processes of developing new technology and refining old technology.

Recap of the 6 core concepts:

1. system, 2. Resource, 3. Requirements, 4. optimization and trade off, 5. Process, 6. Controls.

Using the 6 concepts to teach students technology.

STL 3 Students will develop an understanding of the relationships among technologies and the connections between technology and other fields of study.

Rodger = STL 3: Understanding relationships among technologies and connections to other fields of study. (How technologies are related and how impact other things in our lives and world). Why know this technology, what good is it for me, what are it's impacts and carryovers? Issues to consider = future trends, evolution, collaboration (world sharing, consortium), copyright issues, carry over into other subject areas.)

What does technology do for other areas of society? The studying of technology uses many of the same skills and methods as other topics. By studying how other fields of study have benifitted from the incorporation of technology, we come to a greater appreciation for the advances which have been made over the years.

Technology is all around us, and the better we recognize it the easier it will be to learn it and apply it to our lives. After we see it, then we can improve it and use it to improve other fields.

Technology relates to all other subjects and we need to teach principles so they can be applied to other fields.

1. Students need to be able to understand how we got to where we are in our current technologies. What happened to allow us to communicate or accomplish the tasks that we do. Also to know, or have an idea of where society is going.

2. There are infinite systems in this world, what are they? What makes them up? How much does it cost? What do we require them to do? How are they made? What do we have to give up in features to get other features that we want? Basically, what is the technology, what does it consist of, and for what purpose was it created?

3. how do different technologies work, and more specifically work together? How does one technology affect other areas? E.g. lasers developed for military use, but now used medically. How can you use today’s technologies differently to improve another area?

Standard 4: (Chris)

Students will develop an understanding of the cultural, social, economic, and political effects on society. (Weighing the pros and cons); (Ex. Stone age and weapons, iron age came about bc lack of tin, cotton gin, medical healthier lives, magnifies inequalities, etc.// These examples show = that technology will impact life, knowledge, efficiency, env’t.) (SPEC = social, political, economic, culture; how technology affects….)

Here is a link to the Powerpoint

we have to see that tech is used to improve life. make sure that it's worth doing and wont be bad for the others around. S.P.E.C.

Using a history of technology to show students the social, political, economic and cultural ways that technology affects our lives

Standard 5: (Tim Tanner)

Students will know and understand the environmental impact on technology (good and bad); (ex. Smog/ pollution, cell phone batteries/ water contamination, etc,)

breaking off from STL 4, see weather the tech. will be best for that area. will the environment improve or worsen from this ? so so dont ignor the environment for the BLING!

Students will understand the environmental impact of technology, either positive or negative. The more the students come to understand how new inventions have an impact on society, the more they will involve themselves in how the world runs and evolves.

Students will be able to understand that new technologies are created to cleanup from other technologies.

Standard 6: (Peter)

Teaching idea (Fortune or Failure = re: technology impact); students will understand the role of society in the development and use of technology (ex. Practicality, timeliness of it, affordances, etc.) // Basically = society drives technology and vice versa (ex. Cell phones). We could survive w/o technology but it can’t w/o us.

oh oh i was gona say that!

Using technology in society to better our lives. The two way drives between society and technology.

Tyler (STL #7) Students will understand the influence of technology on history.

(How did these things impact us? ex. Trebuchet, farming, canon, wheel, electricity, railroad, hybrid cars = do we know how it will impact us.)

even thought the title says "on history" i think "IN" is the better term to use. but linking everything together in this chapter you build off previous tech. to improve the next. timms comment too was good that if these older generations could use a "table saw" i bet they would take use of it.

Larkin (STL #8) Understand attributes of design.

Attributes = creativity, many possible solutions, purpose, criteria, systematic, iterative (cyclical/ revisit/ etc.)

design is key. if your product looks dumb or anything about it looks unappealing NO ONE will buy it.

Trevor (STL #9) Understanding engineering design

Process = identify the problem, brainstorm, consider issues, model making (rapid prototyping), feedback (evaluation/ see through other perspectives), create final product (affordances)

having a team to review your product to make sure its gona work is also really big. if the product wont function correctly again NO ONE will buy it.

Jared Massic (STL 10) Understanding Roles of Elements in Technology -Experimentation = Trial and error. In k-12 try to research ideas to make things better for the students and how to make the teaching more effective. Take into consideration functionality, economic factors, and ethical factors. Learn how to work with people of different backgrounds.

Damon (STL 11) Students will develop abilities to apply the design process. The how's of technology, how developed, how works, how to make good decisions. Using technology to solve problems in every day life and deciding which problems are worth using technology to fix. Students also must create many solutions to the problems so that they will not stop with the first solution that comes to mind.

Don (STL 12) Students will develop abilities to use and maintain technology products & systems. 1) Method of diagnosing a system and documenting it 2) Diagnose a system using tools 3) Repair that system

STL 13: students will develop the abilities to assess the impact of products and systems (ie. Price, comfort = of cell phones, etc.)

- Where did the product come from?

- How was it made

- Quality

- Affordances (price)

- Does it do what it advertises?

- Safety factors

- Life span

- Additional costs (upkeep)

Collect info – synthesize data, analyze trends, use assessment such as trends.

Seth

STL 14:

STL 15: students will develop an understanding of and be able to select and use agriculture and related biotechnologies.

- Study of agriculture and biotechnologies

o Biotechnologies – (ie. Growth was limited in the past by the ability to create food.)

o (ie. Our reliance on oil vs. ethanol)

STL 16: students will develop an understanding of and be able to select and use energy and power technologies.

- power vs. energy

o Power = ability to do something

♣ Energy is one source of measurement of the power

- What to use: issues = cost, affordances, etc. (conservation)

STL 17: develop an understanding of and be able to use communication and information technologies.

- computers, entertainment products, electronics, robotics,

- Understand the process of sending information

o Relationships: between human to human – computer to human, etc.

o Info technologies does = communicate/ relaying information.

STL 18: students will develop an understanding of and be able to select and use transportation technologies.**

- land, water, air, space, etc.

- developments (past, present, future)

- Issues, affordances.

o Things students to know: how parts of the mode of transportation work together; propulsion, care, energy, operation, creation, how it is vital to industry, leisure, etc.