1 What is technology?
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1. The application of science to accomplish objectives | ||
2. The body of knowledge available to a society | ||
3. Things invented after you were born | ||
2 If a student you are tutoring was born between 1989 and 1996, what are they likely to consider technology?
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1. computers | ||
2. the internet | ||
3. instant messaging | ||
3 Which of the following do you consider technology?
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1. computers | ||
2. the internet | ||
3. paper | ||
4. books | ||
4 Match the 'technology' on the left with the time period on the right. That is, for people after the time period the item is no longer considered 'technology'.
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1. speech and language | A. pre-history | ||
2. writing | B. about 3300 to 3000 BCE | ||
3. dictionaries | C. the ancient Greeks | ||
4. movable type and books | D. about the mid to late 1400s | ||
5. industrial machines, such as textile mills | E. 1800s (Luddites rioted against these in 1811) | ||