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Download full textJohnson, L.; Adams, S.; Haywood, K. – New Media Consortium, 2011
"The NMC Horizon Report" series is the most visible outcome of the New Media Consortium. (NMC) Horizon Project, an ongoing research effort established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within education around the globe. This volume, "The…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Elementary Secondary Education, Creative Activities, Global Approach
Peer reviewedBerbekar, Rosalia – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 1988
Describes the nature of technology. Summarizes the claims of the anti-technologists, such as Marcuse and Ellul, and the moderate pro-technologists, such as Ferkiss, Mesthene, Brooks and Bowers, National Academy of Engineering, Norman, and Weizenbaum. Provides 79 references. (YP)
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Attitudes, Futures (of Society), Humanities
Peer reviewedPendergast, Richard J. – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 1988
Claims that what is needed is not simply powerful and elegant technology but appropriate technology. Discusses the impact of tacit knowledge and scientism. Recommends the propagation and implementation of the ideal of an organic society, and the return to the ideal of liberal and moral education. (YP)
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, General Education, Quality of Life, Science and Society
Wicklein, Robert C., Ed. – 2001
These eleven papers focus on the need for technology education (TE) to address technological problem solving from a more holistic and appropriate level--less high tech, more thoughtful, and using available resources. "Philosophical Rationale for Appropriate Technology (AT)" (Robert C. Wicklein, Charles J. Kachmar) discusses concerns and…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Cultural Differences
