What are you going to learn?
Technology is defined as the combination of knowledge and techniques that, applied in a logical and orderly manner, allow human beings to modify their material or virtual environment to satisfy their needs, that is, a process combining thought and action in order to create useful solutions.
What is being done in Technology Class?
The methodology of teaching this subject combines the acquisition of theoretical knowledge with its practical application. This is done through the use of projects, one of the most powerful tools of learning suggested by Formal Education for the following reasons:
- Students are protagonists of the process: they come up with each solution; they discuss it, define it, present it, defend it, and finally construct it.
- The students always work in teams (as much in the classroom as in the computer room) so that they learn to participate, to value others’ opinions, to create their own ideas, to accept others’ ideas, and to agree on the results.
- The practical application of the theoretical knowledge acquired in other areas reinforces global teaching.
- Obtaining the final results from practical, tangible, and usable solutions reinforces self-esteem of EVERY student.
What content does technology cover?
- Materials of technical use: Paper and cellulose derivatives, wood, metals and alloys, plastics and stone derivatives, as well as the latest materials are studied in order to know their properties and applications.
- Graphic expression: Drawing of planes, perspectives, dimensions, computer-aided design (CAD), and all of the necessary tools to transmit ideas in graphic form.
- Structures and Mechanisms: Forces, stresses, moments, static and dynamic equilibria to first comprehend and second design the function of machines and systems.
- Electricity, Electromagnetism, and Electronics: Electric currents, circuits, and their components, magnitudes, electrical applications and installations (in assembling and housing). Semiconductors, transistors, diodes, variable resistors, and electrical circuits in analog and digital.
- Information Technology: Using the computer as a work tool both in editing projects and as an element of programing and control.
- Technology of communication: Telephone, radio, television, cable transmissions, and electromagnetic waves, radioelectronic space, satellites, and the phenomenons that enable long-distance communication.
- Energy and its conversion: Energy and its job, sources of energy: renewable and nonrenewable, conversion, and the transport of energy.
- Control and robotics: automatic mechanics, electrics, and pneumatic. Systems of electronic control. Computer control. Robots: sensors, actuators, and programming.
- Technology and society: Influence of technology in the historical development of societies, fundamental milestones. Critical analysis of the technological impact in the world: sustainable and responsible technological development.
Special Thanks to: Fara Harrington