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Media type:
Book
Title:
New frontiers in technological literacy
:
breaking with the past
Contains:
Machine generated contents note:Foreward; Carl Mitcham -- Introduction: Breaking with the Past; John R. Dakers -- 1.Technological Literacy as a Creative Process of Becoming Other; John R. Dakers -- 2.Postliterate Machineries; Stephen Petrina -- 3.Technology and Technology Education: Perspectives from a young person; Molly Watson -- 4.Technological Literacy and Digital Democracy: a relationship grounded in Technology Education; P. John Williams -- 5.Re-Envisioning Our Knowledge Tradition: From Gender-Blind to Gender Aware; Mary Kirk -- 6.Eco-technological Literacy for Resiliency; Leo Elshof -- 7.A Chinese Perspective on Technological Literacy; Nan Wang -- 8.Enabling both reflection and action: a challenge facing technology education; David Barlex -- 9.From CyberEducation to CyberActivism: Can CyberLiteracy Transform the Public Sphere?; Andoni Alonso -- 10.Situating technological literacy in the workplace; Jamie Wallace and Cathrine Hasse -- 11.Genetic literacy: Scientific input as a precondition for personal judgment?; Silja Samerski.
Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
"New Frontiers in Technological Literacy examines new aspects of how students, citizens, and teachers become technologically literate and the aspects of their lives that are mediated by technological literacy. Scholars from four continents consider how technological literacy is shaped by everything from gender to age to country of origin and shapes our relationships to democracy, sustainability, medicine, education, philosophy, and our workplaces. With incisive and forward-looking chapters on topics ranging from scientific and genetic literacy to digital democracy, New Frontiers in Technological Literacy joins Defining Technological Literacy in uncovering how technological literacy affects education, work, and life in the modern world"--