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= Standard 1 Notes =

1. Technology Definitions
Technology: The correct use of tools. Technology should make life easier and/or help us have fun. Technology should improve our lives. Does the technology always make our life easier/or fun? 1 Becoming lazy 2 Getting addicted 3 Viruses 4 If it doesn't work or if it becomes bad technology 5 It could freeze

2. Ergonomics
Designing objects that help people with their jobs, environment, sports, safety, or anything that involves people.

3. System
A system is an organized way to achieve a goal. A system includes four parts: 1 Input 2 Output 3 Process 4 Feedback

4. Trade-off
Intended Outcomes Unintended outcomes

5. The difference between science and technology
Science focuses on the natural world. Technology: focuses on the correct use of tools, making life easier, and more fun.

6. Technology also includes inventions and innovations
Invention: a new product. Innovation: Improving an existing product.

7. Technology should use resources efficiently
The four R's Reduce Reuse Renew Recycle

8. The history of technology
Agricultural Age: Up to the 1700s- people used wooden plows. Industrial Age: 1700s to 1950s- people had factories and steam engines. Information Age: 1950 to now- people using computers. 1 Made the sharing of information faster and more organized. 2 Sharing information has made inventions and innovations happen faster.

9. Current Technologies
Digital Electronics 1 Uses a binary code- 0 and 1 to program computers. 2 Allows us to move a ton of information at one time.

10. Resources we use in Technology
Natural Resources: Non man made Synthetic Resources: Man made materials