Conference Session

Improving Technical Understanding of All Americans

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kara Harris, College of Technology - Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

categories ofabsolutely no influence, somewhat influenced, highly influenced and strongly influenced. The researcher used the Industrial Teacher Education Directory (2007) to select thesample population. The researcher contacted (via telephone) faculty working in ETTEprograms at all universities in the Industrial Teacher Education Directory (2007) toinform them of the research project and to ask for their participation by administering thesurvey instruments to their ETTE students. Of the universities listed in the directory theresearcher was able to make contact with a faculty member at 52 universities—the ETTEstudents at these universities were used as the sample population. A packet was thenmailed in October of 2007 to each university and

Conference Session

Service Courses for Non-Engineers

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Timothy Simpson, Pennsylvania State University; Vince Bertsch, Santa Rosa Junior College; Kate Disney, Mission College; Elsa Garmire, Dartmouth College; Barbara Oakley, Oakland University; Mary Rose, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

established in Tech Tally of: technology and society, design, products and systems, andtechnology core concepts and the ITEA technology topic areas was created. To balance the needto accommodate the diverse requirements of curriculum committees on varied campuses, theframework offers flexibility to faculty in configuring courses within each proposed model whilestill accomplishing the intent of the standards. This framework is intended to form theorganizational infrastructure for creating a repository of course materials and an onlinecommunity for course developers and instructors.OverviewTechnology affects nearly every aspect of our lives, and informed citizens need an understandingof what technology is, how it works, how it is created, how it shapes