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To Optimize Teaching And Learning Utilizing Technology


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Standard 4: Technology

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A.   Give examples of how technological advances, influenced by scientific knowledge, affect the quality of life.

1.   Examine how science and technology have advanced through the contributions of many different people, cultures and times in history.

2.   Examine how choices regarding the use of technology are influenced by constraints caused by various unavoidable factors (e.g., geographic location, limited resources, social, political and economic considerations).

 

B.   Design a solution or product taking into account needs and constraints (e.g., cost, time, trade-offs, properties of materials, safety, aesthetics).

3.   Design and build a product or create a solution to a problem given more than two constraints (e.g., limits of cost and time for design and production, supply of materials and environmental effects).

4.   Evaluate the overall effectiveness of a product design or solution.

 

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