What is Technology

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1. Karatsu,H.(1990), Right Technology : Transfering Technology that is needed, intersect, October , pp10-13 Ted Talks (2010, Febuary 22).Kevin Kelly tells Technology's epic story. source youtube. Teich Albert (1977) Technology and Man's Future St. Martin's press, New York (Prof. Dr Aytekin Isman) The Turkish online Journal of Educational Technology-April 2012, Volume 2

2. Technology provides solution to problems.

3. Technology save time and makes life easier

4. Technology is anything that gives us increased opportunity and possibilities

5. Technology is anything useful created by a mind.( Kevin Kelly's 2010 Ted talk).

6. Technology is a method for generating better ideas.

7. Technology is the Past, Present and future.

8. Technology is a broad term and has evolved overtime.

9. What do i think technology is now?

10. Why do we need new technologies?

11. References

12. Technology provides better ways of doing things.

13. Miles (1995) defines technology as the means by which we apply our understanding of the natural world to the solution of practical problems. It is a combination of “hardware” (buildings, plant and equipment) and “software” (skills, knowledge, experiences together with suitable organisational and institutional arrangement).

14. Technology represents the combination of human understanding of natural laws and phenomena accumulated since ancient times to make things that fulfil our needs and desires or that perform certain functions (Karatsu, 1990)

15. 2. Due to diversity and different backgrounds, people would define technology differently eg, a Scientists, an Engineer and an Attorney will all have different interpretations of what technology means to them.

16. I thought technology had to do with modern and sophisticated equipments such as robots, computers, smart devices etc that gets things done easier and faster.

17. What i thought technology was before?

18. What i learned from the course materials.

18.1. 1. Technology is not limited to machines and equipments as i had previously thought.

18.1.1. "Human’s use of technology involves not only machines (e.g., computer hardware) and instruments, but also includes structured relations with other humans, machines, and the environment. " (Isman, 2012, 208)

19. (Teich 1977) defines Technology as the organisation of knowledge for practical purpose.