Technological Abilities

Knowledge, understanding, and the ability to apply skill and concepts in technological design and problem solving activities is a primary criterion for participating effectively in technological work.

Technologically Literate Individuals are Able to:

* Choose the best products for their purposes
* Be well informed consumers
* Be better leaders
* Operate the products properly
* Maintain products
* Troubleshoot products when something goes wrong
* Evaluate the positive and negative aspects of technology
* Make informed rational decisions relating to the use of technology
* Make informed buying decisions
* Describe what technology is
* Describe how technology is created
* Cite how technology shaped society
* Cite how society shapes technology
* Develop or produce technological products or systems
* Maintain products or systems over the course of their life span
* Evaluate trade-offs in design
* Evaluate how others have successfully solved problems
* Evaluate if a technology is good or bad
* Evaluate the effects of technologies on other technologies
* Evaluate the effects of technologies on the environment
* Evaluate the effects of technologies on society
* Deal with the rapid changes in technology
* Be technologically savvy workers
* Learn new skills easier
* Develop a system to produce a finished product
* Transform a design into a finished product
* Solve practical everyday problems
* Decide what, how, and when to develop a technology
* Decide what, how, and when to use a technology
* Perform their jobs better

Technologist do their work by designing and maintaining products, structures, and systems

Tools are simple objects that help humans' complete tasks.

Tools are used to design, make, use, and assess technology.

Tools and machines extend human capabilities, such as holding, lifting, carrying, fastening, separating, and computing.