1. What I thought before reading the module
1.1. Televisions
1.2. Robots
1.3. Smart watches
1.4. Washing machines
2. What I think after reading the module
2.1. Technology is a scientific way of making products or tools to ease human efforts or work that leads to economic development.
2.1.1. "The intelligent production of new tools, including conceptual and ideational ones, for dealing with problematic situations."(Hickman 2001, pt.183)
3. New definition of technology
3.1. Technology is a scientific approach to replace most of the human chores to ease the life of living and is not limited to just machines.
4. References
4.1. COCCIA, M. (2019, September). What is technology and technology change? A new conception with systemic-purposeful perspective for technology analysis. (Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences) Retrieved from ProQuest: https://www.proquest.com/docview/2320349492?pq-origsite=primo&sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals
4.2. Council, N. R. (2012). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.17226/13165
4.3. The Technology Report: Spanish ‘Smart’ City Project Saves Time, Money. (2016, April 26). Retrieved from https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/spanish-smart-city-project-saves-time-money/3295566.html
4.4. İŞMAN, P. D. (2012, April). Technology and Technique: An Educational Perspective. TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 11(2).
4.5. Schatzberg, E. (2006). Technik comes to america: Changing meanings of technology before 1930. Technology and Culture, 47(3), 486-512. Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/technik-comes-america-changing-meanings/docview/198448721/se-2
5. Why we need new technologies
5.1. Saves time
5.1.1. "Spanish 'smart' city project saves time and money." (The Technology Report: Spanish 'Smart" City Project Saves Time, Money, 2016). https://youtu.be/Mt_dUvUFjS4?si=eXR6eHPxT656LYJ7
5.2. Enhanced learning
5.2.1. Improved communications and higher levels of education make people much more adaptable to new ideas and to new social reforms required by technology. (İŞMAN, 2012)
5.3. Better communication systems
5.3.1. Insights gained from scientific discovery have altered the ways in which buildings, bridges, and cities are constructed; changed the operations of factories; led to new methods of generating and distributing energy; and created new modes of travel and communication. (Council, 2012)
5.4. Employment in the industries
5.4.1. On the beneficial side, stood workmanship, industry, the machine process and technological knowledge. (Schatzberg, 2006)