STANDARD 8.2: Technological Literacy

Standard 8.2 Technology Education All students will develop an understanding of the nature and impact of technology, engineering, technological design, and the designed world as they relate to the individual society, and the environment.
Big Idea: .Technological literacy skills enable learners to adapt to a rapidly changing, man-made world by using problem solving to generate solutions from the conceptual stage to the final product.
8.2 A. Nature and Impact of Technology
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
Can we control the pace at which technology is created? Should we, even if we can?	Technology evolves at an ever accelerating pace based on the needs/ wants of society and is influenced by cultural, political and environmental values and constraints.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 8:
1. Describe the nature of technology and the consequences of technological activity.
2. Describe how components of a technological product, system, or environment interact.
3. Describe how one technological innovation can be applied to solve another human problem that enhances human life or extends human capability.
4. Describe how technological activity has an affect on economic development, political actions, and cultural change.
5. Explain the cultural and societal effects resulting from the dramatic increases of knowledge and information available today.
8.2 B. Design Process and Impact Assessment
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How does technology extend human capabilities? What are the positive and negative consequences of technology? Should technologies that produce negative impact continue to be used? - When are the most sophisticated tools required and when are the simplest tools best?	- Technological outcomes have the potential for anticipated and unanticipated positive and negative results. - The design process is fundamental to technology and engineering.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 8:
1. Demonstrate and explain how the design process is not linear.
2. Use hands on activities to analyze products and systems to determine how the design process was applied to create the solution
3. Identify a technological problem and use the design process to create an appropriate solution.
4. Describe how variations in resources can affect solutions to a technological problem.
5. Select and safely use appropriate tools and materials in analyzing, designing, modeling or making a technological product, system or environment.
8.2 C. Systems in the Designed World
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- Can a system continue to operate with a missing or malfunctioning component? - Is it always beneficial to use the most economical material/materials for production of a technological product?	- A system has interrelated components designed to collectively achieve a desired goal. - All technological activities use resources that include tools/machines, materials, information, energy, capital, time and people.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 8:
1. Explain technological advances in medical, agricultural, energy and power, information and communication, transportation, manufacturing, and construction technologies.
2. Explain reasons why human-designed systems, products, and environments need to be monitored, maintained, and improved to ensure safety, quality, cost efficiency, and sustainability.
3. Explain the functions and interdependence of subsystems such as waste disposal, water purification, electrical, structural, safety, climatic control, and communication.