Conference Session

Developing Technological Literacy in Students

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Elizabeth Milonas, NYC College of Technology - City University of New York

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

. Loekemoer and J.A. Nel, “Exploring the impact of information andcommunication technology on employees’ work and personal lives,” SA Journal of IndustrialPsychology, vol. 42, ed. 1, Jun. 2016.[2] P. Hanafizadeh, S. Ghandchi and M Asgarimehr, “Impact of Information Technology onlifestyle: A literature review and classification,” International Journal of Virtual Communitiesand Social Networking, vol. 9, is. 2, Apr.-Jun. 2017.[3] S. Deb, “Information technology, its impact on society and its future,” Advances inComputing, vol. 4, is. 1, pp. 25-9, 2014.[4] D. J. Fuchs, “The dangers of human-like bias in machine-learning algorithms,” MissouriS&T’s Peer to Peer, vol. 2, is. 1, May 2018.[5] B. J. Erickson, P. Korfiatis, Z. Akkus, and T. L. Kline

Conference Session

Exploration of Broad Issues and Promotion of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College

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Diversity

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, Atlanta, GA, 2013.[5]. “Technologically Literate Citizens - Why The Study of Technology Should Be Mandatory”, [6]. "Front Matter." National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council. 2002. Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need to Know More About Technology. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.[7]. M. W. Bauer, N. Allum, and S. Miller, “What can we learn from 25 years of PUS survey research?”, Public Understanding of Science, 16, 79-95, SAGE Publication, 2007.[8]. International Technology Education Association. Standards for Technological Literacy, International Technology Education Association, Reston, VA (2000).[9]. < https://www.sahcc.org/programs/core-4-stem/ >[10]. <

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Technological Literacy

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R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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Diversity

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viewof ethics, where the engineer is strongly coupled to the system they affect through their work,provides the opportunity for more meaningful feedback through narrative construction [39]; atopic that will be addressed in future work.Bibliography[1] W. R. Bowen, Engineering Ethics: Outline of an Aspirational Approach. London: Springer-Verlag, 2009.[2] K. Rayne, T. Martin, S. Brophy, N. Kemp, J. D. Hart, and K. R. Diller, “The Development of adaptive expertise in biomedical engineering ethics,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 95, pp. 165–174, 2006.[3] W. Carpenter, “Teaching Ethics To Engineers,” in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2004, p. 13862.[4] M. A. Selby, “Assessing Engineering Ethics Training

Conference Session

Exploration of Broad Issues and Promotion of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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Carl O. Hilgarth

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

experiences, thus raising the questionof how do the literacy definitions and standards apply in these contexts, and leading to theobservation that literacy, in the end, even with definition, can mean a “million things.” From thisarose the concept of terminology and communication, i.e. the effect on conveying information indialects, slang, and insider jargon, as well as the discontinuities involved in how wecommunicate technological and engineering literacy in and through any given language, notingthat translations from one language to another, from one culture to another can be affected bychanges in word meanings and idea constructs and contexts (Remember the 1990’s VWcommercial that featured “Fahrvergnügen.” How did we translate this into English

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Technological Literacy

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Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

revised Bloom’s taxonomy. The working document in Figure 3 shows a mid-semestersnapshot of some of the questions asked. The document in the meantime has been updated threetimes to date and will be an ongoing reminder to vary questions, to think about creative ways tohave students think about the material from different angles, to find parallels in their own lives,and to apply historical examples to current situations. Students are free to consult their neighborsand their phones but at the end of class have to hand in a small chit with their answer(s) to theTAs for the course. The revised taxonomy combines the pyramid most of us are familiar with

Conference Session

Developing Technological Literacy in Students

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Johanna Kristiina Naukkarinen, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT; Hanna Niemelä, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, opportunitiesand lessons for EU policy design (2018/2090(INI)),” 2018. [Online]. Available:http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0400_EN.pdf.[3] O. Mayseless and E. Keren, “Finding a Meaningful Life as a Developmental Task inEmerging Adulthood: The Domains of Love and Work Across Cultures,” EmergingAdulthood, Vol. 2(1) pp. 63–73, Jan 2014, doi:10.1177/2167696813515446.[4] E. Pekkarinen & S. Myllyniemi (eds.), Opin polut ja pientareet. Nuorisobarometri 2017[Educational pathways and roadsides. Youth Barometer 2017.], Publications of the StateYouth Council 58, Publications of the Finnish Youth Research Society/Finnish YouthResearch Network 200, 2018.[5] D. Yazilitas, S. Saharso, G. C. de Vries and J. S. Svensson, “The

Conference Session

Exploration of Broad Issues and Promotion of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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require to be proficient intechnological literacy? That is a central issue of this discussion.As a matter of policy in the 1980’s governments seem to have taken the view that it is amatter of the economic good that students should study technology in schools [15], and by1992 a World Council of Associations for Technology Education had been founded. Theconference proceedings associated with the founding of this organization, had the title“Technological Literacy, Competence and Innovation in Human Resource Development”[16].Yet, in this extensive report there are only two papers that mention technological literacy[17; 18]. Both authors are American; one, Michael Dyrenfurth is a member of ASEE. Hisdefinition was,“Technological literacy is a concept

Conference Session

Developing Technological Literacy in Students

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Justin Lee Clough, University of Southern California; Patricia Chaffey, University of Southern California; Gautam Salhotra, University of Southern California; Colin G. Cess, University of Southern California; Rey Pocius, University of Southern California; Katie Mills, University of Southern California

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Diversity

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Margolis and colleagues demonstrated in2010 that an unnamed high school in east Los Angeles, near or in the Boyle Heights region, hadsufficient computer technology but lacked CS courses that required critical thinking. SinceMargolis et al.’s landmark study, LAUSD has made progress in addressing this disparity. In 2016,LAUSD’s Instructional Technology (IT) Task Force recommended “[p]rofessional learningopportunities for all stakeholders [are] imperative to educate leaders on how to incorporate digitallearning tools and how to adapt instruction to the opportunities afforded by digital tools” 11 . Since2019, LAUSD has become the first district in the nation to adopt ISTE Student Standards and tojoin forces with California Emerging Technology Fund for

Conference Session

Developing Technological Literacy in Students

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Neelam Prabhu Gaunkar, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

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. "Defining reflection: Another look at John Dewey and reflective thinking."Teachers college record 104, no. 4 (2002): 842-866.[12]. Prabhu Gaunkar, Neelam and Mani Mina. “ Developing self-awareness in learningpractices: Designing and implementing a survival tool for freshmen in engineering .” InProceedings of the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2018.https://peer.asee.org/30312[13]. Bowden, John A., and Eleanor Walsh. "Phenomenography." Phenomenography (2000): v.[14]. Åkerlind, Gerlese S. "Variation and commonality in phenomenographic research methods."Higher Education Research & Development 31, no. 1 (2012): 115-127.[15]. Entwistle, Noel. “Introduction: Phenomenography in higher education.” Higher EducationResearch & Development

Conference Session

Exploration of Broad Issues and Promotion of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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Joseph F. Camean P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Diversity

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: “Increasingly the United States is seen globally as an important leader rather than the uncontested leader.”and “. . . the United States is playing a less dominant role in many areas of S&E activity.”Our future rests with today’s undergraduate engineers, who are initiated to the professionthrough coursework in science, mathematics and engineering fundamentals. In the not toodistant past, the fundamentals included a fair amount of engineering technology. Many oftoday’s four year engineering programs disdain the technical side of engineering, openly criticalthat their curricula are assuredly not a technology program; favoring instead a more extensivefocus on derivation and theoretical work with expected continuity into graduate level

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Technological Literacy

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

using a median or a mode (not a mean). The mode is probably the most suitable for easy interpretation. • • • Express variability in terms of the range or inter quartile range. Standard Deviation can’t be used. • • • • • • • • • Display the distribution of observations in a dot plot or a bar chart. It can’t be a histogram, because the data is not continuous.APPENDIX B: Five–Point Likert Scale. Rubrics courtesy of W. S. U., Pullman, WA. 5 Has demonstrated excellence. Has analyzed important data precisely. Has provided documentation. Has answered key questions correctly. Evidence of