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	Technological Literacy Reconsidered
		Many people have written on the subject of technological literacy, all of whom are to be commended for their efforts to describe the complexities of the individual who is literate in technology.
		Johnson (1989) conceives of technological literacy to be subsumed under scientific literacy with the former type of person having an understanding of the generation of new technology, its control and its uses.
		It is not possible to define technological literacy, or measure it, in the absence of an agreed upon intellectual domain for technolgy education.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/JTE/v4n2/waetjen.jte-v4n2.html (2533 words)

	20th WCP: Technological "Paradigms:" Cognitive Traditions and Communities in Technological Change
		Technological paradigms not only change because of self-willed "functional failures" (the mainly functional equivalent to Kuhn's anomalies) but also because of "presumptive" ones, something without analogy in scientific paradigms conception.
		To put it shortly, during the reigning of a previous technological paradigm and its normal science development a new scientific theory may already be able to show the limits of it, that it would not work under different or more stringent conditions.
		Technological communities, if they are composed of the participants of Constant's model, are first of all practical communities to produce some technological artifacts.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Scie/ScieHron.htm (2493 words)

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		Other technological advances made during the Paleolithic era were clothing and shelter; the adoption of both technologies cannot be dated exactly, but they were key to humanity's progress.
		Technological developments in the Upper Paleolithic era, helped by the development of language, included advances in flint tool manufacturing, with industries based on fine blades rather than simple flakes.
		Optimistic assumptions are made by proponents of ideologies such as transhumanism and singularitarianism, which view technological development as generally having beneficial effects for the society and the human condition.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Technological (5537 words)

	Technological Learning Systems, Competitiveness and Development*
		The section also investigates if the lack of technological dynamism of Brazil and Mexico could be explained by the fragility of their scientific basis, as an analysis based on the linear model of innovation would assume.
		A rough picture of the behavior of the technological gap that separates late industrializing economies and the leader industrial economy could be figured out through the analysis of the evolution of the per capita income and labor productivity of those economies in comparison to that of the United States.
		The contrast between the processes of technological learning characteristic of Brazil and Mexico, which are of a passive nature, and that of Korea and Taiwan, which are active, could be easily linked to the successes or failures of those countries’ processes of industrialization and catching up.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /cid/cidbiotech/taiwan/Viotti.htm (7660 words)

	An Investigation of Technological Literacy
		Even though technological literacy may not be as important to students who do not wish to further their education, i.e.
		Technological literacy requires that students use technology, and the latter is not an inexpensive acquisition.
		Technological literacy opens one up to many different resources, as already mentioned; it is these resources that allows one to compare the opinions and findings of different authors which stimulates critical thinking.
	eserver.org /courses/fall96/76-100m/vanthof (2675 words)

	Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
		The key to these successes was technological surprise: the ability of one side to catch the other unawares with a military capability that it was not thought to possess, or with never-before-seen improvements to a known capability.
		Though technological surprise can provide crucial advantages on the battlefield, a more strategic issue for national security is the inability to understand the effects of scientific and technological innovations on the conduct of warfare.
		Sometimes referred to as “technological failure”, it is tied to the attitudes of people toward the ever-changing world of science and technology, and the danger of their misunderstanding, mistrusting, and mismanaging innovative capabilities in ways that place military operations at risk.
	www.csis.org /component/option,com_csis_progj/task,view/id,720 (988 words)

	Technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a level of technological mastery sufficient to leave the surface of the planet for the first time and explore space.
		Most modern technological processes produce unwanted by-products in addition to the desired products, which is known as industrial waste and pollution.
		On the other hand, the optimistic assumptions are made by proponents of views or ideologies such as transhumanism and singularitarianism, that view technological development as generally having beneficial effects for the society and the human condition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Technology (4198 words)

	Technological Literacy
		Technological Literacy can be described as the intellectual processes, abilities and dispositions needed for students to understand the link between technology, themselves and society in general.
		Technological Literacy is concerned with developing students' awareness of how technology is related to the broader social system, and how technological systems cannot be fully separated from the political, cultural and economic frameworks which shape them.
		Citizens' responsibilities in a technological age are defined as the exercising of democratic rights on issues that affect the direction to be taken by society and its technological developments.
	www.sasked.gov.sk.ca /docs/policy/cels/el5.html (2890 words)

	20th WCP: Heidegger On Traditional Language And Technological Language
		It is thus a technological form of language in the sense that it heralds that order in which everything is reduced to the univocity of concepts and precise specifications.
		Moreover, technology in its essence is nothing technological, in the sense of machines and their parts, and language in its essence is nothing linguistic, in the sense of human sounds or words.
		Thus, in technological language there lies a convergence of these into the event that appropriates the human being to challenge-forth all that is and to speak about all that is in the terms of information.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Cont/ContGreg.htm (4990 words)

	21st Century Skills
		Technological literacy is knowledge about what technology is, how it works, what purposes it can serve, and how it can be used efficiently and effectively to achieve specific goals.
		These reports assert that technological literacy is an essential component of job readiness, citizenry, and life skills.
		Students must not only become competent in the use of technology and associated applications, they also must be able to apply their skills to practical situations.
	www.ncrel.org /engauge/skills/techlit.htm (551 words)

	Role of Technological Development in China's Industrialization and Economic Growth
		Technological development was considered key for continuing further research and development, improving the technological development of industrial enterprises, creating new competitive industries and products and improving China's infrastructure.
		While the effects of technological innovation on the productivity of state enterprises is a highly debatable given continuing massive inefficiencies and financial loss, private enterprises in China have continued to benefit from technology transfer and provide the Chinese economy with growing technology industries and the best prospect for further technological development and innovation.
		The technological advance achieved in Chinese industries are a direct result of imported technology, and technology promotion efforts (See Figure D).
	www.gwu.edu /~ylowrey/growth.htm (3302 words)

	Technological Determinism: The Technological Imperative
		Also related to technological autonomy is the frequent assumption or implication that technological developments, once under way, are unstoppable: their 'progress' is inevitable, unavoidable and irreversible.
		Arnold Pacey suggests that the technological imperative is commonly taken to be 'the lure of always pushing toward the greatest feat of technical performance or complexity which is currently available' (Pacey 1983, p.
		The technological imperative concerns that self-motivated pursuit and implies that it is somehow inevitable...
	www.aber.ac.uk /media/Documents/tecdet/tdet07.html (640 words)

	Technological Change and The Skill Acquisition of Young Workers
		In this section we examine the different channels by which technological change is likely to affect the firm's decision to train its workers or the worker's decision to invest in on-the-job training, as implied by economic theory.
		Table 8 reports the partial derivatives and elasticities on the technological change measures and then decomposes them into the change that is due to the increase in the incidence of training and that which is due to the increase in hours of training, given positive hours.
		The impact of technological change on the post-schooling investments of different education groups is also theoretically ambiguous; although, in general, more educated workers train more, we show that, in the presence of technological change, a weaker relationship between education and training may exist.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/wp/gbs/pw9510.html (10047 words)

	Technological Surveillance in the Workplace
		This paper discusses the legality under federal and Colorado law of various forms of technological surveillance of employees.
		Employers considering technological methods of monitoring employee communications should first carefully examine whether the contemplated actions would be lawful under these statutes.
		Technological monitoring of employees in the workplace presents both practical and legal issues.
	www.fwlaw.com /techsurv.html (5262 words)

	Technological and Personal Problem Solving Styles: ...
		The technological versions of the instrument provided a means of examining the same subscales in relation to technological problem solving.
		This study found that the differences in the overall personal and technological problem solving scores, and their subscale scores, between freshmen and seniors were not significant.
		Furthermore, given the likelihood that technological and personal problem solving are different it is necessary for teachers to be able to assist students in learning how to solve both types of problems.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/JTE/v7n2/wu.jte-v7n2.html (5561 words)

	BMBF: Germany's technological performance
		Technological performance is documented by new, innovative products and processes which can compete on international markets.
		The BMBF regularly commissions studies to evaluate the different aspects of Germany's technological performance and to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the German innovation system.
		Once every year, the most important results are compiled in a report on Germany's technological performance, which is submitted to the BMBF by leading independent economics institutes.
	www.bmbf.de /en/1869.php (1440 words)

	Sub-Saharan Africa : Assessing Technological Capabilities and Fi
		Technological capabilities are at the center of the new theories of economic growth which focus on technology and human capital as engines of growth.
		The objective of the investigation is to gain a better understanding of the technological problems facing African enterprises, large and small, and to help the World Bank and other development agencies design more effective assistance programs to accelerate the supply response to policy reforms.
		Given the importance of technological capabilities, and particularly of learning mechanisms, in determining manufacturing productivity, country case studies are utilized to provide additional details on the nature of technological effort undertaken in firms in the three countries.
	www.worldbank.org /afr/findings/english/find58.htm (2049 words)

	MDCD - Technological Literacy
		That technological literacy is taking on a new significance in this country is further evidenced by a 2002 report from the National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council.
		The report calls for a "broad-based effort to increase the technological literacy of all Americans." It states that technology education should begin as early as kindergarten and should involve all subjects.
		Since technological issues have more than one viable solution, decision-making should reflect the values of the people and help them reach their goals.
	www.michigan.gov /mdcd/0,1607,7-122-1680_2629_2722-51923--,00.html (615 words)

	Dimensions of Technological Literacy
		Technological literacy encompasses three interdependent dimensions: (1) knowledge; (2) ways of thinking and acting; and (3) capabilities.
		It is hard to imagine a person with technological capability who does not also know something about the workings of technology, or a person who can think critically about a technological issue who does not also have some knowledge of technology and science.
		So, although the three-dimensional framework about technological literacy can be helpful in thinking and talking, it is important to remember these dimensions are arbitrary divisions.
	www.nae.edu /nae/techlithome.nsf/weblinks/KGRG-569LNP?OpenDocument (271 words)

	A Note on Technological Determinism
		Technological determinists are likely to have little quarrel with the idea that innovations in information technology will bring about changes in knowedge-in-use.
		Technological determinism stands in opposition to the theory of the social construction of technology, which holds that both the path of innovation and the consequences of technology for humans are strongly if not entirely shaped by society itself, through the influence of culture, politics, economic arrangements, and the like.
		It seems excessive to respond to such contrasting examples either by adopting the attitude of a technological determinist or by concluding that it is invariably naïve to suppose that technological change can be said to have a social and economic impact.
	www.angelfire.com /linux/alan1/determinism.html (1391 words)

	Technological Progress
		A corollary assumption, implicit in much of SETI literature, is that the rate of technological development is commensurate with that of our own over some arbitary time period - one or two hundred years or since the beginning of the industrial revolution, or whatever.
		This gives rise to speculations about "how far ahead of us" "they" are, as though the timetable is set by the initial moment that the ET species "developed intelligence" or maybe by the moment of the first spark of life (you know, the lightning strike in the organic soup).
		Technological progress is seen as a path, one-dimensional, with milestones on it, that everyone traverses if they have the intellectual equipment to do so.
	openseti.org /Progress.html (1865 words)

	The technological invention of disease -- Hofmann 27 (1): 10 -- Medical Humanities
		disease is considered as a technological invention of disease.
		weaken the argument for the technological diagnosis of disease.
		technological treatment is basic to the concept of disease.
	mh.bmj.com /cgi/content/full/27/1/10 (5015 words)

	Technological Literacy Matters!
		The philanthropic arm of the IEEE, the IEEE Foundation is focused on the technological literacy of society.
		This initiative seeks to raise and distribute funds in support of IEEE programs—many yet to be proposed—that improve the technological literacy of the members of society worldwide, from childhood through adulthood.
		Technological literacy involves understanding how technologies are created and how they impact society, individuals, and the environment.
	www.theinstitute.ieee.org /portal/site/tionline/menuitem.130a3558587d56e8fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=institute_level1_article&TheCat=2201&article=tionline/legacy/inst2006/mar06/3w.foundation.xml& (442 words)

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	www.technologicalarts.ca /catalog/conditions.php (887 words)

	Technological Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Technological Studies Candidates take the course Principles and Methods of Teaching Technological Studies that provides an introduction to pedagogical theory and practice appropriate to technological studies programs in the high school.
		Technological Design includes the in-depth study of a variety of design processes that may be used in solving technological challenges in the fields of architecture, communications technology, construction, manufacturing, electronics, and transportation.
		The description of Technological Studies Areas includes a list of related trades and professions for each BBT and also indicates whether a diploma/degree or a Certificate of Qualification is required.
	www.oise.utoronto.ca /admissions/e.tech.html (2353 words)

	What’s Wrong with Being a Technological Essentialist
		Earlier we saw that Feenberg is moved to reject technological substantivism, the belief that the essence of technology is outside of human control, because of the politically dangerous fatalism this seems to entail.
		Heidegger’s claim that we live in a technological age would then be roughly equivalent to the notion that modern culture comprehends everything as a potential object of technical action.
		The kind and character of language are determined according to the technological possibilities of the formal signal transmissions which execute a sequence of continual yes-no decisions with the highest possible speed....The kind of language is determined by the technology (Heidegger, 1998: 140, translation modified).
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/feenberg/symp4.htm (8458 words)

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