Standard 1: The characteristics and scope of technology
Well this is basically a summary of what technology is and how it has developed through the needs and wants of society.

Standard 2: The core concepts of technology
OK, I'll summarize the lesson I taught and hopefully it will be useful to all of you in life and on the final.
Systems: How a whole is expressed through its parts, and how those parts relate to each other. This can be studied through design, troubleshooting and operation.
Resources: These are the tools, machines, materials, information, energy, capital, time and people.
Requirements and Parameters: Safety, physical laws, available resources and cultural norms that go into making a product.
Optimization and tradeoffs: design that gives the best result. Sometimes we have to trade ideas and designs to achieve the best results.
Process: Sequence of events used to combine resources.
Controls: Info that causes systems to change. Done through feedback from employees and customers. Controls change and evolve to best fit the business and product.

If you'll remember I taught this through the use of bridge building. We used wood and tape to make the bridge, the builders had constraints and parameters of time and design which forced them to trade off ideas for others. They exhibited a process to building.

STANDARD 3: The relationships among technologies and the connections between technology and other fields

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Standard 4: The cultural, social, economic, and political effects of technology]

Effects of Technology:

Cultural: Brings globalization - helps make the world smaller

Social: Lack of personal contact has been linked to depression, however technology has made communication much easier.

Economic: Has many pros and cons.

Political: Raises a greater awareness of the issues, has potential for news bias.

We must always consider the effects that new technologies can and will have on all aspects of society.

Standard 5: The effects of technology on the environment
Help your students understand the negative and positive effects that technology has on the environment.

K-2: Teach them what pollution is and how to reuse and recycle.

3-5: Learn alternative ways to protect the environment. They need to study the problem locally and globally.

6-8: Understanding the manufacturing process of products helps students understand +/- of technology. Technology is also used to help against natural disasters. Also teach that the pros/cons can sometimes be in competition with each other.

9-12: There are ways of monitoring the environment for decision making. We can devise technology to conserve water, soil, and energy. Understand the ways that we can use technology and natural process together. With new technology, it is important to consider the trade-offs with the +/- on the environment.

Standard 6: The role of society in the development and use of technology
Here is a brief and partially incorrect summary of STL 6. Basically, STL six is about society driving technology through demands and market forces. If something is good, it'll stick around, if not it won't. Also, peoples beliefs and feelings about change and what new technologies are trying to do can impact if a technology is ever developed. Ex: Cloning(Remember dolly the sheep?)

Standard 7: The influence of technology on history

Students will understand the influence of technology on history.

Knowing the history of technology helps people understand the world around them by seeing how inventions and innovations have evolved and how they in turn produced the world as it exists today.

Three Great Transformations in Technology
© development of agriculture
© steam engine
© computers and high speed communication

K-2
© The way people live and work has changed through history because of technology
3-5
© People have made tools to provide food, to make clothing and to protect themselves.
6-8
© Many inventions and innovations have evolved by using slow and methodical processes of tests and refinements.
© In the past, an invention or innovation was not usually developed with the knowledge of science.
9-12
© Most technical development has been evolutionary, the result of a series of refinements to a basic invention.
© The evolution of civilization has been directly affected by, and has in turn affected, the development and use of tools and materials.

Communication fosters enhanced development by allowing ideas to be shared and to build on each other. IE synergy vs. isolation. People inspire ideas in each other.

Standard 8: The attributes of design

http://www.et.byu.edu/~monkey07/Standard8.ppt
Defining Characteristics of design:

Purposeful(designer must have a goal in mind when designing a product or system (some functions that the product should perform)),

Based off requirements(Crieria [sets the parameters for a design by identifying key elements and features of what the product is and what it is supposed to do.] and Constraints [limits on design. Some limits are absolute while most are relative such as funding, space, materials, time, ect.] Design must go through optimization with a series of adjustments being made to imporve effectiveness within the given requirements.),

Systematic(Designers must be systematic or get lost in the constant flow of designs to solve the problem. Design measurability is concerned with a designer's ability to quantify the design process in order to improve efficiency.)

Iterative,

Creative(No matter how exact the requirements or how definitive the design principles are, there are always choices to be made and there is always room for a fresh idea or a new approach. As designers search for the designs that will yield the best solutions, they will depend on intuition, feelings, and impressions gained from prior experience to determine which directions to explore.)

and Many Possible Solutions(What may be the best solution for one situation may not be the optimum answer for another. The problem solver should look at many different solutions and determine which one(s) is best under the circumstances.).

Standard 9: Engineering Design Process

The Engineering Design Process consists of a series of steps that must be considered when designing a prototype. These steps are not mandated to be accomplished in order, however the order is pertinent. The steps are observed in basic terms apon teaching young students and are integrated as the student age increases. Below are the integral steps to the design process according to the age bracket taught:

K-2:
1.Identify the Problem
2.Look for ideas
3.Develop Solutions
4.Share the Solutions

3-5:
1.Define the Problem
2.Generate Ideas/Brainstorm
3.Select a Solution
4.Test the Solution
5.Make the Item
6.Evalutate the Item
7.Present the Results

6-8:
Same as grades 3-5, but focusses on the value of group brainstorming or problem solving and model making and testing for practical real-world applications.

9-12:
Incorporates all the above steps and also includes the applied ideas of design principles and factors.
Principles: Factors:
1.Flexibility 1.Safety 5.Quality
2.Balance 2.Reliability 6.Maintenance
3.Function 3.Economy 7.Manufacturability
4.Proportion 4.Environment

Standard 10: The role of troubleshooting, research and development, invention and innovation, and experimentation in problem solving.
This is kind of an introoduction to the engineering process and the method involved in solving problems. The includes lots of different areas of experts doing research to acquire the informaiton needed to develop products and processes that are better than before. This also includes troubleshooting to test ways to come up with the best solutions.

Standard 11: Applying the design process
Again I'll summarize briefly for everyones benefit. I won't cover the process because it was part of someone elses STL. Design is the first step in production. To apply this students must have knowledge of the problem and an idea of how to solve it. Then, they must have a broad knowledge of different technologies available to develop the solution. Application of the process involves the actual use of those tools, materials, equipment and resources. The most important thing is that we are able to give students an informative and educated opinion on how they should solve the problem efficiently.
Remember Homer Simpson building his car? We can learn from his mistakes. He was given the task to build a car to save his brothers company. He wasn't sure what to build or how to do it, so he threw together some random ideas that he thought would make an excellent car: fuzzy dice, shag carpet, extra large cupholder, seperate compartment for the kids. The result, failure and eventual bankruptcy of his brother. This is why STL #11 is so important, we don't need any more Homer Simpson engineers!

STANDARD 12: Use and maintain technological products and systems

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Standard 13: Assess the impact of products and systems
-Gather Information
-Synthesize
-Analyze Trends
-Draw Conclusions Regarding Positive and Negative Effects.

Standard 14: Medical Technologies
Students should understand the impact that technology has had on the medical field. Because of technology we can take care of ourselves better and longer. It creates constant improvement in pharmaceuticals, procedures, equipment and materials, etc.
http://www.et.byu.edu/~backy/276/Standard14.ppt

Standard 15: Agricultural and related biotechnologies

Standard 16: Energy and power technologies
This is about the optimization and tradeoffs of using different fuels and how much of them we use.

Standard 17: Information and communication technologies

Standard 18 – Transportation Technologies
Students will develop an understanding and be able to select and use transportation technologies.

The transportation system is a complex network of interconnected components on land, water, air and space. Transportation modes are parts that work together to create a common goal – much like the history of technology. There are advantages and disadvantages to intelligent systems and non-intelligent systems, such as preventing accidents and ensuring safety. Transportation has built upon itself through manufacturing/construction, communication, health/safety and agriculture.

Standard 19: Manufacturing Technologies

Standard 20: Construction Technologies

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