Conference Session

Promoting Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

the heart ofthe technology and society debate [12, p 9].A further integration may be made if students work together in a team project in which they areinvolved in the appraisal. One of the complaints that industrialists have made of new graduates isthat many of them have no experience of working in teams. By participating in appraisals ofthemselves and their peers they should obtain some insights into human behaviour. Greaterinsight into human behaviour, particularly in organizations would come from exercises that focuson learning and perception.MethodClearly there has to be some closed instruction in a stage of romance, this may be taken toinclude formal reading. But the spirit of the stage is that of open-ended inquiry as a prelude