The last time I was at UBC it was to complete a degree in Technology Education.\u00a0 Contrary to what you might expect the technology education that I was studying had very little to do with computers.\u00a0 Technology Education was (is) the name adopted for the field that used to be called Industrial Education.\u00a0 I suppose the name was chosen in an attempt to make the area more in line with the times and to broaden its scope.\u00a0 What it actually did though was force Tech Ed teachers \u00a0to be constantly correcting people about what they teach, \u2018oh, you teach computing…\u2019\u00a0 Personally I hate the name.\u00a0 For this reason the word \u2018technology\u2019 has always seemed to me to be a bit vague.\u00a0 We spent a fair bit of time back then as a class discussing technology and what it means and I don\u2019t think we ever really came up with a completely satisfying definition.\u00a0 And now I find myself thinking about a definition again and still not really coming up with anything very satisfying.\u00a0 Before I try to add my definition though let me quote from my ETEC 511 material, where I just read, \u201cTechnology \u2013 the world generated as artefact, or the activity, knowledge and will to make it so\u201d.\u00a0 To me that definition is even more wide open than I could have imagined, to now including \u2018knowledge and will\u2019 without necessarily any action, (conceptual technology?).\u00a0 So I would like to throw a simple definition out there and say \u2018technology is the means of change\u2019.\u00a0 Simple, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s too bad.\u00a0 I would argue that technology is about change, but unlike other definitions mine doesn\u2019t imply that the changes brought on by technology \u00a0is good or bad, it merely changes what was to what is.<\/p>\n
As an aside, I don\u2019t know if anyone else experienced this but all the way through that paragraph I kept having the urge to capitalize \u2018technology\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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