Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - Engaging Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Kate Disney, Mission College

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

,often only one or two. Each instructor has high teaching loads of four or more courses persemester. Faculty have little time for course or laboratory development. There is limitedlaboratory support staff and budgets to buy and maintain equipment. While many communitycolleges exist, the relentless teaching demands on the faculty and geographic separation tend toresult in community college engineering faculty working in a state of relative isolation. Anyeffort to attract students into engineering careers and promote technological literacy for non-engineers through community colleges must contend with these challenges.Topics Cited as Appealing by Non-Engineering StudentsEngineering faculty teaching technological literacy courses for non-engineers

Conference Session

Technological Literacy for K-12 and for Community College Students: Concepts, Assessment, and Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Macho, Buffalo State College

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

AC 2010-1942: A FUNCTIONAL K-12 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FORTEACHING TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACYSteve Macho, Buffalo State College Steve Macho completed a BS at St Cloud State University, and M.A. & Ed.D. in Technology Education at West Virginia University. Steve is a Minnesota farm boy who has been involved in technology his entire life. He worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico Highlands University, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Technology Education for at Buffalo State College. He became a member of the Oxford Roundtable in 2008 and plans to present another paper there in 2010

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - Engaging Students

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Howell, San Jose State University; Patricia Backer, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

1 5 Liberal Studies** 0 0 1 Science 0 1 2 Social Sciences 3 1 1 Undeclared Major 7 3 10 TOTAL 30 14 50 * The Continuing Education program does not belong to any particular college. ** Liberal Studies is a multidisciplinary degree program. It doesn’t belong to any particular college.Content of this CourseEngr 5 focuses on technologies used every day to teach scientific principles to students. Thiscourse deconstructs

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - College Courses and Minors

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelli Huser, Iowa State University; Thomas Kelly, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Seth Ballou, Iowa State University; Joseph Crispin, Iowa State University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

AC 2010-1138: VENUES TO INTRODUCE AND TEACH IMPACT OFENGINEERING IN HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENTKelli Huser, Iowa State UniversityMani Mina, Iowa State UniversityThomas Kelly, Iowa State UniversitySeth Ballou, Iowa State UniversityJoseph Crispin, Iowa State University Page 15.1350.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A technological literacy approach to introduce and teach the impact of engineering throughout the human historyAbstractThis paper provides a possible approach to introduce and teach impact of engineering to non-engineering students with a focus on the technology and engineering aspects. One effective wayto enhance

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - College Courses and Minors

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Robert J. Gustafson, Ohio State University; James Young, Rice University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

AC 2010-1055: DEVELOPMENT OF ENGINEERING-RELATED MINORS FORNON-ENGINEERING STUDENTSJohn Krupczak, Hope College Professor of Engineering, Hope College. CASEE Senior Fellow, National Academy of EngineeringMani Mina, Iowa State University High Speed Systems Engineering Laboratory, Director of Minor in Engineering Studies (MES) Program at Iowa State UniversityRobert J. Gustafson, Ohio State University Honda Professor for Engineering Education and Professor, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and Director, Engineering Education Innovation CenterJames Young, Rice University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Conference Session

Technological Literacy for K-12 and for Community College Students: Concepts, Assessment, and Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Moshe Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

professionalinterests; learning through hands-on activities in a rich technological environment;fostering peer-learning and collaboration in the class; and encouraging participants toreflect on their learning..IntroductionSubjects such as mathematics, science and technology are currently being instructed inschool as separate disciplines, and teachers often teach specific subject matter and haveonly little knowledge about subjects not within their area of expertise. Only few teachersunderstand broad terms such as technology and technological literacy. In the Departmentfor Science and Education at, we feel it is important to promote technological literacyamong mathematics, science and technology teachers in order to enhance theirunderstanding of technology and

Conference Session

Technological Literacy for K-12 and for Community College Students: Concepts, Assessment, and Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen O'Brien, The College of New Jersey

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

galore. This will require a level of technological, quantitativeand scientific literacy. One might call this STEM-literacy, where the literacy level not onlyincludes literacy in each on the four components but also in how the four components worksynergistically together. Additionally, technology/engineering can provide valuablecontextual education settings resulting in effective learning (of math, science and “non-technical” subjects like history, social studies and language arts). At our institution, TheCollege of New Jersey (TCNJ), it was felt that an effective place to impact technologicalliteracy, as well as increase the effectiveness of teaching and learning is with future K-5teachers. So, approximately 10 years ago a multidisciplinary

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and the Educated Person

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. William Graff, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer, LeTouneau University; Martin Batts, Le Tourneau University; Maria J. Leiffer, LeTouneau University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

in bothtechnical and philosophical fields. We find that we are all engineers, if our aim is toproduce change.Bibliography:1. Graff, R.W., “Electrical Engineering for Freshmen,”IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. E-15, NO 3,Aug. 1972.2. Graff, R.W., and Paul R. Leiffer, “Student Observations over the Last 25 Years”, Proc. ASEE, June.2005. Page 15.1367.133. Graff, R.W., “Forty Years of Teaching Circuits I: A Tribute to Dr. Hayt” Proc. ASEE, June. 2004.4. Graff, R.W., Leiffer, P.R., Niemi, J., and Vaughan, M., “A Hydraulic Circuits Laboratory – to ImproveStudent Understanding of Basic Electricity”, ASEE Proceedings, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 24