Universitas Majalengka Earlier Technology NOWDAY : • Planes, trains, and automobiles carry people and cargo from place to place at high speeds.
• Telephones, television, and computer networks
help people communicate with others across the street or around the world.
• Medical technologies, from vaccines to magnetic
resonance imaging, allow people to live longer, healthier lives.
• Furthermore, technology is evolving at an
extraordinary rate, with new technologies being created and existing technologies being improved and extended. Standards for Technological Literacy Technology and Engineering Literacy Framework for the 2014 NAEP (nagb.gov) • Technology is any modification of the natural world done to fulfill human needs or desires. • Technology and engineering literacy has been defined in a variety of ways, but here it will be thought of as the capacity to use, manage, and evaluate the technologies that are most relevant in one's life, including the information and communication technologies that are particularly salient in the world today, as well as to understand technological principles and strategies needed to develop solutions and achieve goals.