Teaching technology MEI7030N

Course content:
What is teaching? What is learning? Why technology education? Metatechnology as general technology. Fundamentals of metatechnological education. Technological knowledge vs knowledge about technology. The ways of thinking in technology: technological languages, models, systems. The ways of working in technology. Technology as source of educational inspirations. Designing educational systems. The objectives and contents of teaching technology on examples: machines for processing, transporting and storing material, energy and information. Areas of technology and their languages. What are technical problems and how they are solved? The competences of technology teacher. The role of new media in technology education.

Learning outcomes:Capabilities and competences of wide-ranging (metatechnological) designing and implementing educational systems of technology.