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TECHNON
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the ability to use technology to
communicate and gather information
that is readily available online to be
able to synthesize new information
enhances the learning skills of the
users as it is helpful in solving
problems and improve the critical
thinking of the technology users
 earlier stages later stages
o informal o know how to use or operate
o young children particular tools
spend much of o understand how they work
their time o develop the capacity to think
developing their critically and to adapt technologies
tool-using to serve personal, social, and
capacities ecological goals in ways that will
sustain life on Earth
to enable young people to develop their own
creative and critical capacities in relating to
technology, not to train them to be machine
operators
for this new generation to have the
awareness, the moral and ethical
sensibilities, and the will to adjust technology
to fit into their 21st century
in order to be a technologically literate
citizen, a person should understand what
technology is, how it works, how it shapes
society and in turn how society shapes it.
1 face your fears

conquer that
underlying
fear caused
by your lack
of knowledge
2
get your hands dirty

in order to learn more about

computers you need to use
them, and by use them I
don’t mean type up some
word documents – really
USE them.
 learn to fail, not fail to learn

3 the key here is not to become

discouraged by your failures.
Believe it or not you can mediate
this experience by attempting tasks
that are, as Vygotsky would say,
"within your zone of proximal
 the erroneous thinking that technological change is
somehow disconnected from human influence
 it is based on the misconception of the central role of
people play in the design and uses of technology
 technology follows its own course independent of human
direction
 technology affects society, but society does not affect
technology
standards for
standards for
technological
technological
literacy
literacy
1the nature of technology
technology and society 2
3design
abilities for a technological world 4
5the designed world
information literacy
the ability to recognize when information is needed and
to have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use
effectively the needed information
mulliteracies
the multiple ways of communicating and creating
meaning, including such modes as visual, audio, spatial,
behavioral, and gestural
new literacy
the use of new technologies to gather and relay
information
digital literacy
the ability to evaluate, utilize, share, and create content
using information technologies and the Internet
web literacy
the knowledge and use of specific skills needed to
locate, analyze, and communicate information found
online
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Technology Literacy: Four
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All Americans Need to Know
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2002). Retrieved from
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Technological Literacy.
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