Technology education [1] is the study of innovation, in which students "discover the processes and understanding related to technology". [2] As a field of research study, it covers the human's ability to form and alter the real world to satisfy needs, by controling materials and tools with strategies. It attends to the in between broad use and the absence of knowledge about technical elements of technologies used and how to fix them. [3] This emerging discipline seeks to add to the students' total scientific and technological literacy, [4] and technacy.
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Technology education ought to not be confused with instructional innovation. Educational innovation focuses on a more narrow subset of technology use that revolves around using technology in and for education rather than innovation education's concentrate on technology's use in general. [5]
History
Technology education is an offshoot of the Industrial Arts tradition in the United States and the Craft teaching or vocational education in other countries. [4] In 1980, through what was called the "Futuring Project", the name of "commercial arts education" was altered to be "innovation education" in New york city State
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With Technology Incorporated Into Everyday Learning
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