{"id":272,"date":"2009-09-13T17:22:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T00:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/?p=272"},"modified":"2009-09-13T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T00:24:10","slug":"technology-simply-put","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/13\/technology-simply-put\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology&#8230;simply put&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posting by Caroline Faber<\/p>\n<p>Defining technology is simplified\u00a0in choosing\u00a0to view technology as end-product of desire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Technology is the extension of our human capabilty, in order to satisfy our needs or wants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Technology can be simple or complex; original or improved; frivilous, necessary or somewhere in-between.\u00a0 The basis remains, however, that it is limited by current human capability and driven by current desire.<\/p>\n<p>Taken from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)\u00a0(2003)\u00a0 <em>Technology Education Guide<\/em> (pp.\u00a027).\u00a0 Accessed at: <a href=\"http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0013\/001320\/132001e.pdf\">http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0013\/001320\/132001e.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posting by Caroline Faber Defining technology is simplified\u00a0in choosing\u00a0to view technology as end-product of desire.\u00a0 &#8220;Technology is the extension of our human capabilty, in order to satisfy our needs or wants.&#8221; Technology can be simple or complex; original or improved; frivilous, necessary or somewhere in-between.\u00a0 The basis remains, however, that it is limited by current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}