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Arizona
Standards
Technology
Standards
(Adopted 3/24/97)
Standard
3
Students evaluate
the impact of technology (e.g., benefits, costs, risks) on individuals,
society and the environment.
Students know
and are able to do the following:
READINESS
(Kindergarten)
- Describe how
technology is used in daily activities to meet personal needs
- Describe changes
in their local community because of technology (e.g., new bridges,
new roads, traffic lights, new buses, new buildings, removal
of trees and other growth in the natural setting)
- Relate positive
experiences with technology to new situations
FOUNDATIONS
(Grades 1 - 3)
- Identify technologies
to reduce air pollution, clean water, reduce noise pollution
and purify food
- Describe the
impact of various classroom technology applications on learning
and the classroom environment
- Understand
the technological factors that have led to the rapid increase
and dominance of the human population, its density and distribution
- Explain how
physical environments are changed by human activity (e.g., irrigation,
building of dams and levees, offshore drilling)
ESSENTIALS
(Grades 4 - 8)
- Identify physical,
psychological and economic impacts of technology on people,
plants and animals
- Identify technology
(e.g., cars, trucks, tractors, microwave ovens, digital clocks,
computers, video games) present in their environment and the
impacts it has
- Explain the
role of technology in the human modification of the physical
environment (e.g., building new roads, digging canals, installing
underground pipes and cables)
- Explain how
technology (e.g., modern communication devices -TV, teleconferencing,
desktop publishing, commercial products, satellite communication)
affects perceptions of places and regions
- Explain how
changes in transportation, communication and other technologies
(e.g., railroad cars, airfreight, telephones, facsimile transmissions,
satellite-based communication systems) affect the location of
economic activities
- Understand
proper etiquette for electronic mail and communication
- Compare the
transportation and communication systems of the present to those
of the past in terms of factors such as quality, efficiency
and speed
- Understand
the impact of information processing and communications, with
emphasis on the impact of computers and electronic communications
on contemporary society
- Analyze how
the introduction of a new technology (e.g., invention of the
telescope, applications of modern telecommunications) has affected
or could affect human activity
- Explain the
need for laws and policies to govern scientific and technological
applications, such as in the safety and well-being of workers
and consumers
- Describe the
worldwide distribution and use of resources and how technology
affects the definition of, access to and use of resources
- Measure differences
in time, speed or distance required to perform various tasks
using various devices (e.g., sensors, linear measuring devices,
timing devices)
PROFICIENCY
(Grades 9 - 12)
- Research an
existing career plan (e.g., researching choices and the education,
skills and knowledge needed)
- Analyze significant
events, inventions, discoveries, etc., in the history of technology
(e.g., the Gutenberg press, agrarian movements/age, industrial
age, world wars, information/light age, space travel/exploration,
Sputnik, transistor radio, wheel, gunpowder, steel) and their
effects on beliefs, attitudes and behavior in business, society
or culture
- Identify current
problems facing our society (e.g., mass transit, distributing
natural resources, conservation, uses of natural resources)
and how technology might address them
- Analyze a
recent technological innovation and develop an impact statement
- Serve as a
member of a student panel which presents concerns and proposed
technology-based solutions to a community/social issue
- Identify and
analyze the stress of technology on the environment, people
and society
- Analyze benefits,
limitations, costs and consequences involved in using technology
or resources (e.g., x-rays, agricultural chemicals, natural
gas reserves)
- Understand
the nature of technologies, including agriculture, with emphasis
on both the agricultural revolution in ancient times and the
effects of the use of biological and chemical technologies on
20th century agricultural productivity
- Evaluate ways
in which technology has expanded the human capacity to modify
the physical environment
- Describe the
effects of technology on the development and change of culture
- Identify and
describe the everyday impact of recent space technology (e.g.,
more sophisticated computers, remote sensing, medical imaging)
DISTINCTION
(Honors)
- Automate a
simple task and evaluate its impact on employment, worker skills
and employee satisfaction
- Evaluate and
design the ergonomics of workstations
- Evaluate the
impact of emerging technologies on employment, worker skills
and employee satisfaction
- Research how
government agencies evaluate safety through the use of technology
(e.g., satellites, surveyor transit, x-ray equipment, sonic
testing equipment, stress analyzers, food processing)
- Evaluate the
social, environmental and economic impact of a planned engineering
project
- Define a problem
that can be solved by an engineered project; include statements
about social, environmental and economic impacts
- Share innovative
technological discoveries with others using various resources
- Compare and
contrast the personal benefits and liabilities associated with
a technological innovation (self-driven vehicles, human-implanted
identification devices, cures for all cancer diseases, open
access to instant communication devices)
- Assemble a
community-based needs assessment, utilizing existing technology,
and create an action plan for improvement
- Identify the
legal aspects of managing a technological enterprise (organizing
personnel, setting up day-to-day business operating functions,
applying for permits and licenses, establishing a marketing
plan)
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