Tech Tally: Approaches to Assessing Technological Literacy
National Research Council / National Academy of Engineering / Committee on Assessing Technological Lit
In a broad sense, technology is any modification of the natural world made to fulfill human needs or desires. Although people tend to focus on the most recent technological inventions, technology includes a myriad of devices and systems that profoundly affect everyone in modern society. Technology is pervasive, an informed citizenship needs to know what technology is, how it works, how it is created, how it shapes our society, and how society ...