Standard+1+Notes

Standard 1 Notes
1. Technology Definitions 2. Ergonomics 3. System 4 Trade-Off 5. The difference between science and technology 6. technology also includes inventions and innovations 7. Technology should use resources efficiently 8. The history of technology 9. Current Technologies 10. resources we use in technology
 * Technology- the correct use of tools
 * Technology should make our life fun and/or easier
 * Technology should improve our lives
 * Does technology always make life easier and/ or fun? NO!!!
 * Makes life too easy
 * Addiction
 * Frustrating
 * Can hurt you (over heating, etc.)
 * Weapons
 * Designed objects that help people with their jobs, entertainment, sports, safety or anything that involves people
 * An organized way to reach a goal
 * A system includes 4 parts
 * Input
 * Output
 * Process
 * Feedback
 * All systems have trade-off
 * intended outcome
 * unintended outcome
 * Science focuses on the natural world
 * Technology focuses in the correct use of tool, making life easier, and more fun
 * Invention: a new product
 * Innovation: improving an existing product
 * 4 R's
 * Reduce
 * Reuse
 * Renew
 * Recycle
 * Agricultural Age: Up to the 1700s-people used wooden plows
 * Industrial Age: 1700s to 1950s-people had factories and steam engine
 * Information Age: 1950s to now-people using computers
 * Made sharing of information faster and more organized
 * Sharing information has made inventions and innovations happen faster
 * Digital Electronics
 * uses a binary code 0-1 to program computers
 * Allows us to move a tome of information at one time
 * Natural resources: not man-made
 * Synthetic Resources: man-made materials