Baking Industry Training

College
Course: Diploma in Business & Technology

Module: Technology

Lesson 1: Introduction to Technology

 • 30 mins: Ice-breaker
• 60 mins: Lecture
LESSON PLAN • 30 mins: Break
• 30 mins: Group work
• 30 mins: Review
ATTENDANCE

Attendance – Raise your hand and say

‘Present’ when called

Attendance – Twice each lesson

GROUND RULES
Keep your video on and mute your audio

Do not leave your home or do other things during lesson

Raise hand or say ‘excuse me’ if you wish to say something

Participate in discussion and share your views

Respect each other and do not make offensive remarks

MODULE ASSESSMENT

• 100% INDIVIDUAL WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT

• COMPLETE YOUR ASSIGNMENT TASK AFTER EVERY LESSON

• DURING PRESENTATIONS, YOU WILL RECEIVE FEEDBACK FROM LECTURER

• DO NOT COPY OR PLAGIARISE. MAKE SURE IT IS YOUR OWN WORK.

ICE-BREAKER
ABOUT THE LECTURER

- Background
Name
- Teaching subjects
ABOUT THE STUDENT

WHO ARE YOU?

ANY NEW STUDENTS? WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

WHAT IS YOUR BACKGROUND?

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO LEARN

FROM THIS MODULE?

WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO AFTER

THIS COURSE?
 MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES

MO1: To introduce learners to the emerging

LEARNING technologies that will have an impact on the global
OUTCOMES economy

MO2: To learn about blockchain, artificial intelligence,

big data, internet of things and cloud computing
 LESSON OUTCOMES

LEARNING Lesson 1: Introduction to Technology

OUTCOMES
LO1: Definition for technology
LO2: Technology and global economy
LO1: Definition of Technology

WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY? WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

 What is Technology?
Technology is comprised of the products
and processes created by engineers to
meet our needs and wants.
 Technology vs. Science
Technology Science
– Study of our – Study of our
human-made natural world
world – Deals with “what
is”
– Deals with “what
can be”
How Does Technology Address Human
Needs and Wants?
Information Communication Bio-Related and Medical Environmental
Agriculture

Technology

Manufacturing
Transportation Energy and Nanotechnology
& Power
Construction
 Information Technology
Information Technology allows us to send
signals around the world.
Examples:
Television, Internet, satellite, GPS, cell phones
Impacts of Information Technology
POSITIVE NEGATIVE
IMPACTS IMPACTS

INTERNET – INTERNET – Harder

Information is to distinguish
stored for between reliable and
easy access unreliable sources
 Communication Technology
Communication Technology is giving or
exchanging information.
Examples:
Magazines, DVDs, photography, video games
Impacts of Communication Technology
POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS
DIGITAL COMPUTERS,
CAMERAS Allow PRINTERS, &
you to edit and print DIGITAL CAMERAS
only the pictures Make forgery and
you like plagiarism easier
 Bio-related and Agricultural
Technology
DNA Replication image

Biotechnology transforms living things

from the Human
Genome Project

into products or new forms of life.

Examples:
Genetic engineering, bionics
Agricultural Technology produces plants and
animals for food, fiber, and fuel.
Examples:
Irrigation, food preservation,
weed and insect control
Both deal with living things:
Plants, animals, and people
Impacts of Bio-Related
Technology
POSITIVE NEGATIVE
IMPACTS IMPACTS
HEALTH – HEALTH – Side
Improves quality of effects of some
life, vitamins, medications –
vaccines, nausea, shortness
medications of breath, etc.
Impacts of Agricultural Technology
POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS
FERTILIZERS– can FERTILIZERS– have
make plants produce found their way into
more food per acre ground water, polluting
good drinking water
 Medical Technology
Medical Technology creates tools
to treat disease and injury.
Examples:
Lasers, prostheses, ultrasound, medications
Impacts of Medical Technology
POSITIVE NEGATIVE
IMPACTS IMPACTS
X-RAYS – Make it X-RAYS – Too
easier to diagnose many x-rays can
injuries cause cancer.
 Environmental Technology
Environmental Technology creates tools to minimize the
effect of technology on the development of living things.
Examples: Hybrid vehicles, conservation, waste management
(recycling)
Impacts of Environmental Technology
POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS

RECYCLING – RECYCLING –
Improves water and Disposal of garbage
air quality is more complicated
and time consuming
 Production Technology
Production Technology is the
manufacturing of physical goods on an
assembly line and the construction of
structures on a job site.
 Production Technology
Manufacturing Construction
changes natural or Technology builds
synthetic materials structures that support
into usable loads and protect us
products. from the environment.
Examples: Examples: House,
Clothing, vehicles, bridge, roads
food
Impacts of Production Technology
POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS
MANUFACTURING – MANUFACTURING –
New products help to Many industries use
make our life easier materials that can
and increase leisure harm the
time environment
CONSTRUCTION – CONSTRUCTION –
Provides shelter, Noise and debris,
improves roads, traffic problems,
creates employment accidents and injuries
opportunities
 Materials Technology

The development of materials

with outstanding combinations of
mechanical, chemical, and
electrical properties that make
other advances possible.
Examples: Mosquito repellent
clothing, artificial skin grafts for
burn victims, advanced building
materials such as composite
decking
Impacts of Materials Technology
POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS
NEW MATERIALS – NEW MATERIALS –
able to reuse recycled don’t know how the
materials to help the materials will behave
environment over long periods of
time.
Transportation Technology
Transportation Technology
Provides a way for people, animals,
products, and materials to be moved
from one place to the next.
Examples:
Flight – Airplane, rocket, space shuttle
Land – Train, subway, automobile, bicycle
Water – Commercial, cruise ships
Non-vehicle – Conveyor belts, pipelines
Impacts of Transportation Technology
POSITIVE NEGATIVE
IMPACTS IMPACTS
Traveling long Accidents
distances faster
 Energy and Power Technology
Energy is the ability or capacity to do work.
Examples:
Chemical Energy  Gasoline
Mechanical Energy  Motion
Thermal Energy  Steam
Electrical Energy  Electricity
Radiant Energy  Light
Energy and Power Technology
Power is the rate at which energy is
transformed from one form to another.
Examples:
Electrical power – provides light and operates motors
Mechanical power – moves automobiles, trains, and
airplanes
Fluid power – uses fluids to produce motion
Hydraulic – uses a liquid
Pneumatic – uses a gas
Impacts of Energy and Power Technology
POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE
IMPACTS
Without energy and Overuse of
power, most nonrenewable
technologies would resources
not exist or work
 Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is manipulating materials on
an atomic or molecular level.
Examples:
Sensors, Nanobot, molecular manufacturing
 Impacts of Nanotechnology

POSITIVE IMPACTS NEGATIVE IMPACTS

IMPLANTED SENSORS IMPLANTED SENSORS
Continuously sense and Impede privacy
adjust medical treatment
Image Resources
Microsoft, Inc. (2008). Clip Art. Retrieved September 10, 2008, from
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). (n.d.). Genesis:

Search for origins. Retrieved September 10, 2008, from
http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/educate/scimodule/cosmic/ptable.
html
TAKE A BREAK

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LO2: Technology and global economy

TECHNOLOGY AND GLOBAL IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY IN

ECONOMY GLOBAL ECONOMY
 TECHNOLOGY & GLOBAL ECONOMY

The technology can be regarded as primary source in

economic development and the various technological
changes contribute significantly to the development of
underdeveloped countries
 TECHNOLOGY & GLOBAL ECONOMY

Technological advancement and economic growth are truly

related to each other
 TECHNOLOGY & GLOBAL ECONOMY

The level of technology is also an important determinant of

economic growth
The rapid rate of growth can be achieved through high level
of technology
Schumpeter observed that innovation or technological
progress is the only determinant of economic progress
 TECHNOLOGY & GLOBAL ECONOMY

But if the level of technology becomes constant the process

of growth stops
Thus, it is the technological progress which keeps the
economy moving
TECHNOLOGY &
GLOBAL ECONOMY
• Inventions and innovations
have been largely responsible
for rapid economic growth in
developed countries

Think of some examples

 TECHNOLOGY & GLOBAL ECONOMY

• The growth of net national income in developed countries cannot be claimed

to have been due to capital alone

• Kindleberger observed that major part of this increased productivity is due to

technological changes

• Robert Solow estimated that technological change accounted for about 2/3 of

growth of the U.S. economy; after allowing for growth in the labour force and

capital stock
 TECHNOLOGY & GLOBAL ECONOMY

• In fact, the technology can be regarded as primary source in economic

development and the various technological changes contribute significantly to

the development of underdeveloped countries

 TECHNOLOGY & GLOBAL ECONOMY

• In fact, the technology can be regarded as primary source in economic

development and the various technological changes contribute significantly to

the development of underdeveloped countries

Questions
&
Answers
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