Guest Editarticle - Technological Literacy: Concepts And Constructs

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Social Capital and Technological Literacy in Taiwan

The burgeoning interest in social capital within the technology community represents a welcome move towards a concern for the social elements of technological adaptation and capacity. Since technology plays an ever larger role in our daily life, it is necessary to articulate social capital and its relationship to technological literacy. A nationwide data was collected by area sampling, and posi...

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY MEANINGS AND RATIONALES An Annotated Bibliography SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY MEANINGS AND RATIONALES

INTRODUCTION The need to promote a 'world community of scientifically and technologically literate citizens' was recognized as urgent by the World Conference on Education for All held in Jomtien in 1990. Project 2000+, initiated to promote and guide the measures needed to give effect to this Jomtien declaration, seeks to: • identify ways of promoting the development of scientific and technologi...

A Systems Approach for Developing Technological Literacy

In order to examine the implications of applying a teaching strategy that integrates a systems approach and project-based learning (PBL), it was implemented in two courses. The objective of the first course was to train preservice teachers to teach the subject of “science and technology for all.” The second course was an introductory freshman course in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Thi...

Digital Libraries: Technological Advances and Social Impacts (Guest Editors' Introduction)