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National Standards For Technological Literacy


 Standard 2
 Standard 7
 Standard 8
 Standard 9
 Standard 11
 Standard 17

 Standard 2: The Core Concepts of Technology

  • W -- Systems thinking applies logic and creativity with appropriate compromises in complex real-life problems.
  • AA -- Requirements involve identification of the criteria and constraints of a product or system and determination of how they affect the final design and development.
  • BB -- Optimization is an ongoing process or methodology of designing or making a product and is dependent on criteria and constraints.

 Standard 7: The History of Technology

  • G -- Most technological development has been evolutionary, the result of a series of refinements to a basic invention.

 Standard 8: The Attributes of Design

  • H -- The design process includes defining a problem, generating ideas, identifying criteria and constraints, making a model or prototype, testing and evaluating the design, refining the design, communicating process and results.

  • J -- The design needs to be continually checked and critiqued, and the ideas of the design must be redefined and improved,

  • K -- Requirements of a design, such as criteria, constraints, and efficiency, sometimes compete with each other.

 Standard 9: Engineering Design

  • J -- Engineering design is influenced by personal characteristics, such as creativity, resourcefulness, and the ability to visualize and think abstractly.

  • K -- A prototype is a working model used to test a design concept by making actual observations and necessary adjustments.

  • L -- The process of engineering design takes into account a number of factors.

 Standard 11: Applying the Design Process

  • P -- Evaluate the design solution using conceptual, physical, and mathematical models at various intervals of the design process.

  • R -- Evaluate final solutions and communicate observation, processes, and the results of the entire design process, using verbal, graphic, quantitative, virtual and written means.

 Standard 17: Information and Communication Technologies

  • M -- Information and communication systems allow information to be transferred from human to human, human to machine, machine to human, and machine to machine.
  • N -- Information and communications systems can be used to inform , persuade, entertain, control, manage and educate.
  • O -- Communication systems are made up of source, encoder, transmitter, receiver, decoder, storage, retrieval and destination.