Technology Education 7
Semester Class

• Technology Education is a semester class that enable students to become technologically literate.  Reaching beyond basic computer systems and ideas, it incorporates and complements science, mathematics, and other disciplines.  It answers the important question: ”Why do we need to learn this?”  This course gives students the opportunity to experience how the application of old, new, and emerging technologies affect everyday lives.

• After an orientation period, students select from various technology modules that they would like to explore.  In those modules the approach to learning is self-directed, allowing the students to experience the most innovative and modern learning approaches in Technology Education with a hands-on exploratory philosophy.

• Learning modules allow students to interact with robots, lasers, machines controlled by computers, and other high-tech equipment.

   

Technology Education 8

• Technology Education is an elective course and a comprehensive class using a multimedia and modular technology education approach.

• Students will experiment, design, invent, create, build, test, and analyze while exploring 14 different technology areas.

• This course helps students understand how knowledge, tools, and resources are used to help people.