Standard 5
Technology
Education

Students will: Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Impacts of Technology


Key Idea: Technology can have positive and negative impacts on individuals, society, and the environment and humans have the capability and responsibility to constrain or promote technological development.

 
Performance Indicators--Students will:

Elementary

Intermediate

Commencement
• describe how technology can have positive and negative effects on the environment and on the way people live and worker • describe how outputs of a technological system can be desired, undesired,
expected, or unexpected

• describe through examples how modern technology reduces manufacturing and construction costs and produces more uniform products

 • explain that although technological effects are complex and difficult to predict accurately, humans can control the development and implementation of technology.

• explain how computers and automation have changed the nature of work

• explain how national security is dependent upon both military and nonmilitary applications of technology