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0. Introduction
1. What is it?
2. Why do we use it?
3. Where does it come from?
4. How does it work?
5. How does it change?
6. How does it change us?
7. How do we change it?
8. What are its costs & benefits?
9. How do we evaluate it?

Lesson

How does technology change?  One way is exponentially. Technology used to create computers 60 years ago could not make the computers we use today. What has happened over those 60 years is that we have used one technology to make a better technology, which we have used to make a still better technology. But this is nothing new. Using tools to make better tools explains a lot of technological change since people started making tools millions of years ago.  Our book offers other reasons technology changes.

Hook stories

Folding Paper

Where Computers Are Going

Activities

Time to Build a Microprocessor shows why the technology used to create computers 60 years ago could not make the computers we use today. What has happened over those 60 years is that we have used one technology to make a better technology, which we have used to make a still better technology. But this is nothing new. Using tools to make better tools explains a lot of technological change since people started making tools millions of years ago.

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Teaching Young People to Think About Technology