Nature of Technology: Implications for Design, Development, and Enactment of Technological Tools in School Science Classrooms

Autor/inn/en	Waight, Noemi; Abd-El-Khalick, Fouad
Titel	Nature of Technology: Implications for Design, Development, and Enactment of Technological Tools in School Science Classrooms
Quelle	In: International Journal of Science Education, 34 (2012) 18, S.2875-2905 (31 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0950-0693
DOI	10.1080/09500693.2012.698763
Schlagwörter	Educational Technology; Science Education; Classrooms; Expertise; Inquiry; Technology Integration; Science Curriculum; Technological Advancement; Scientific Research; Scientific Concepts; Pedagogical Content Knowledge + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unterrichtsmedien; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Classroom; Klassenraum; Expert appraisal; Technological development; Technologische Entwicklung; Pädagogische Kompetenz
Abstract	This position paper provides a theory-based explanation informed by philosophy of technology (PoT) of the recurrent documented patterns often associated with attempts to enact technology-supported, inquiry-based approaches in precollege science classrooms. Understandings derived from the history of technological development in other domains (e.g. medicine, transportation, and warfare) reveal numerous parallels that help to explain these recurrent patterns. Historical analyses of major technologies reveal a conglomerate of factors that interact to produce benefits, as well as intended and unintended consequences. On a macro-scale, PoT facilitates understandings of how technologies interact and are impacted by individuals, society, institutions, economy, politics, and culture. At the micro-level, and most relevant to science education, PoT engages the inherent nature of technology along a number of key dimensions: role of culture and values, notions of technological progression, technology as part of systems, technological diffusion, technology as a fix, and the notions of expertise. Overall, the present analysis has implications for the design, development, implementation, and adoption of technological tools for use in precollege science education, and highlights the role of technology as both "artifact" and "process". (Contains 1 table, 6 figures, and 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10