What is technology v2
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This document discusses different ways of conceptualizing technology from the perspectives of Marc de Vries. It summarizes his views that technology can be understood as artifacts, knowledge, processes, or an expression of human volition. Specifically, it outlines de Vries' taxonomy of technology knowledge, which includes knowledge of an artifact's physical nature, functional properties, and relationships between form and function. It also notes that he sees technology as processes that involve design, making, and using/assessing artifacts.
![As knowledge
• What is knowledge?
• ‘… a person knows that p when:
• The person believes that p;
• The person has found justification for p;
• P is true. ‘
(de Vries 2005, p.30)
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What is technology v2
- 2. This talk is based on writing and thinking from Marc de Vries, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Delft, University of Technology. The primary source is: Teaching about Technology (2005).
- 3. Ideas about how to value technology As artefacts As knowledge As processes As volition
- 7. As knowledge • What is knowledge? • ‘… a person knows that p when: • The person believes that p; • The person has found justification for p; • P is true. ‘ (de Vries 2005, p.30) [P stands for proposition]
- 8. What is technology knowledge?
- 9. Taxonomy of technology knowledge 1. Knowledge of the physical nature of the artefact 2. Knowledge of its functional properties 3. Knowledge of the relationship between the functional nature and the physical nature 4. Knowledge of the processes that are involved in the functioning or in the making of the artefact (de Vries 2005, p.36)
- 11. As processes Three aspects: 1. Design 2. Making 3. Using and assessing processes
- 12. As design process (1) • Flow chart • One process? • Undetermined problems: ‘wicked’ problems • Observation • Reflection • Not static but dynamic
- 13. As design process (2) Experience based technologies Micro-technologies Macro based technologies
- 15. Using & assessing processes beliefs reasoning Possible worlds memory Counter-factuals modelling intentions goals predicting What if…?
- 17. As volition
- 18. Extension of us or an intermediary?
- 19. Solution?
- 20. Solution?
- 21. Controlling technology or being controlled by technology? • Bioengineering • Ambient technology • Nanotechnologies
Editor's Notes
- #6: This is what most people, particularly pupils see as technology How might this impact on D&T? What does this do to the subject’s content?
- #10: Material properties What it means to function as a sandwich, a hammer Knoweldge that a certain material property makes a ddeeice suitable for suing it for a certain purpose
- #13: What is presented in textbooks?