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Article: Tech-know: integrating engaging activities through standards-based learning: these units enable [students] to get excited about learning, doing, and thinking in the technology education classroom.
- Article from:
- The Technology Teacher
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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Background
Science, mathematics, and technology (SMT) literacy is vital to national interests, in particular to maintaining the economic health of the nation and the well being of its citizenry, making the success of SMT education especially important to everyone. While science and mathematics education have been criticized in the past for being too theoretical and lacking in application, technology education (TED) has been criticized for emphasizing the making of things without sufficient grounding in theory (Peterson, 2000). Technology education is in a strong position to integrate SMT education because of its natural orientation towards active learning and the ...