Loendorf, W. R. (2012, June), Using Stories to Promote Technological Literacy  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--22198

\bibitem{asee_peer_22198}
  Loendorf, W. R. (2012, June), \emph{Using Stories to Promote Technological Literacy}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--22198

William R. Loendorf.  "Using Stories to Promote Technological Literacy".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/22198 Internet.  26 Jul, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_22198}
  William R. Loendorf.
  "Using Stories to Promote Technological Literacy".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/22198 Internet.  26 Jul, 2024

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AB  -                    Using Stories to Promote Technological LiteracyAbstractTechnologies are all around us; they exist in many different forms; and have numerous diversefunctions. Today’s society, in general, would have a difficult time living or functioning withoutmost of these modern conveniences. Yet people take our modern technologies for granted. Thatis, people use them but in almost every case do not really understand them, know how they work,or how they came to be. They are simply the tools utilized to accomplish a host of tasks andpeople accept them as such. However, technologies have been used by humans since thebeginning of time to enhance and extend our capabilities. These technologies were then passedon from one generation to the next though verbal training sessions. Stories were used todemonstrate how these devices were first created, improved over time, and used. They addedboth breadth and depth to the training process. This use of stories to describe the innovation fromthe initial idea, to the creation of the first prototype, through its improvements, to its current statewas an integral part of the learning process. All too often today this aspect of technologicalliteracy has been sidelined in order to get to the facts, cover only the necessary information, andspeed up the educational pace. However, as a result, the connection between today’stechnologies and those of the past is lost. In order to address this issue, stories from the ancient torecent past along with real life experiences have been incorporated into class lectures to exploreand discuss the historical perspective of technological development. These stories alsodemonstrate how technologies are inter-related and how cultural factors affect the acceptance orrejection of technologies. The intent was to enhance the student’s understanding of howtechnologies were developed and why. These stories promote technological literacy and help toprepare students for the technological challenges they will encounter in the future by enhancingand extending their understanding of past technologies and their related issues.
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