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Standard Tech Notes

1. Technology-the correct use of tools.  2. Erganomics-designing objects that help people with their jobs, environments, sports, saftey, or anything that involves people. 3. System-An organized way to achieve a goal.  4. All systems have trade-offs.  5. The difference between science and technology.  6. Technology also includes inventions and innovations.  7. Technology should use resources efficiently.  8. The history of technology.  <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">9. Current technology. <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">10. Resources we use in technology.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">Technology should make your life easier and more fun.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">Technology should improve your life.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">Does technology always make your life easier or more fun? No, addictions to video games, viruses, addiction to computers, power outages, and we rely on it too much.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">There are 4 parts of a system: input, output, process, feedback.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">Intended outcome (positive), unintended outcome (negative).
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">Science: focused on the natural world.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">Technology: focuses on the correct use of tools making life easier.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">invention: A new product.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">Innovation: Improving an existing product.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">The 4 r's: Reduce, Reuse, Renew, and Recycle.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">Agricultural Age: Up to the 1700's-people used wooden plows.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">Industrial Age: 1700's-1950's-people had factories and steam engines.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">Information AGe: 1950's-now-people using computers
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">made the sharing of technology easier.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">Sharing information has made inventions and innovations happen faster.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">digital electronics use a binary language of 0's and 1's-used to program all computers.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">allows us to move a ton of information at one time.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">Natural resources: Not man-made
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: left;">Synthetic resource: Man-made