Re: REF: technology

[Bill Wallace <mds@RT66.COM>]

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>To:Kathy Geronzin <kgeronzin@PO-1.NORTHEAST.K12.IA.US>
>From:mds@rt66.com (Bill Wallace)
>Subject:Re: REF: technology
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>>Tomorrow afternoon, that is Thursday, Dec. 14, our newly formed district
>>technology committee will meet.  For that meeting I need a definition of
>>technology.  I have been looking in dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. and
>>none of the definitions seem to fit what a school district definition of
>>technology should be.  Does anyone have a definition of technology they
>>would care to share with me.  TIA.
>>
>>Kathy Geronzin
>>Northeast MS-HS
>>Goose Lake, IA 52750
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>Kathy:
>        The definition of technology is not the probable difficulty.
>Technology is the application of science. Of course, this includes every
>tool and invention since man first walked the earth. What most people call
>technology today is the rate a which new technology is introduced into our
>society today. When it once took centuries for technologies to impact
>society, now new knowledge becomes new technology nearly overnight.
>        Thus, in my opinion, technology in schools is really about change
>and not exactly just technology. Can school deals with a rate of changes
>that increases nearly everyday?
>Hope that this help,
>Bill Wallace
>Cybrarian
>Manzano Day School
>Albuquerque, NM
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