Explains procedure for videotape recording of operations in industry for use in classroom instruction. (GR)

Relates the need for acquainting students with social and economic consequences of technology's demands on products of the environment. (GB)

The author discusses the proliferation of courses in futures studies which do not reach the majority of students and states that industrial arts teachers should infuse futures content into all of their classes instead of presenting a specific futures course. He suggests classroom activities to promote continuous futures thinking in technology. (MF)

Industrial arts teachers have a responsibility to teach students how the areas of production, communication, and energy/power influence their lives, and to generate a philosophy of technology with human survival, according to the author. He states that education for teachers and teacher educators have slighted or neglected both themes. (MF)