First and foremost, welcome to my blog!
For my first yarn, I would like to inform you of my university paper EDCR 332 Curriculum Content and Pedagogy, which focuses on the topic of Technology.
To my delight, it has been an intriguing and frustrating process, who knew!?
Based on the reading by Janet Burns, Technology, Intervening in the World (1997), I am to reflect and share my opinion and point of view on the text.
"We can describe technology in general as the means by which human beings have sought and provided for their survival and enjoyment of life on this planet"
(Burns, 1997).
An interesting read, it had me thinking very hard right from the start. I found myself trying to relate this information in an everyday life situation, as well as figuring out if I was using technology on a daily basis, while being blissfully unaware of it.
If innovation is a complex process, and invention is a flash of inspiration, therefore "Invention is 99 per cent perspiration and only 1 per cent inspiration (Burns, 1997, p. 21) seems to make perfect sense. Still lost? Carry on...
I justified this to myself by thinking supply and demand, types, needs and wants. Technology is problem solving at its best. Making something to meet the demands and needs of humans. Some bold statements I agree, but it is the motivations that inspire us to think higher, wider, faster, further, either intrinsic or extrinsic makes no difference, both require a solution to either a widespread or individualized problem.
The following quote from Janet Burns simplifies this for both you and I to understand.
Technology is an advanced process of problem solving.
It changes the world and science helps us understand it.
(1997)
You with me now?
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