Technology in Context

The Technology in Context (TIC) Project is one of several on-going programs for teacher professional development supported by the Mathematics and Science Education Center of St. Louis. The project involves teachers in the development of a Science/ Technology/Society (STS) curriculum based on the knowledge they gain from a summer internship experience at the McDonnell Douglas Corp., St. Louis. 

Ethnographic study procedures are being used to evaluate the Technology In Context program. (8) Interviews with the teacher interns, their students surveys and surveys of the McDonnell Douglas personnel directly involved with the project indicate very positive responses to the experience in 1988 and 1989. 

The Technology in Context Curriculum Handbooks, developed as a result of this project are being distributed nationally to interested educators and industry people. The handbooks uniquely tell a story about experiences teachers have had working in technological settings. The materials are based on actual work teachers did in industrial settings, and demonstrate how teachers transferred that experience to classrooms. The curriculum deals with real life technological applications, from first-hand experiences. 

Mitchener, C. Technology in Context Generating Curriculum from Internships (TIC) Mathematics and Science Education Center St. Louis, MO, 1990 Vol. 1. 

The content of a curriculum must be functional when dealing with societal activities necessary chemical concepts, skills and attitudes with respect to macro-micro thinking must be included. This can be derived from representative authentic tasks. The content of the curriculum should be considered as a chemical toolbox. The traditional content of the present chemistry curriculum, such as the stmcture of atoms, ionic theoiy, fundamental acid-base calculations, are not necessarily part of the chemical toolbox when addressing chemical and technological tasks. The validity of the toolbox (philosophical substmcture) is determined by the representative practices and tasks related to chemistry (cf need-to-know principle in context-based approaches). 

Novak, A. M., Gleason, C. I. (2000). Incorporating portable technology to enhance an inquiry, project-based middle school science classroom. In R. T. Tinker J. S. Krajeik (Eds.), Portable technologies science learning in context (pp. 29-62). Dordrecht Kluwer. 

We previously spoke about the risk of off cycle emissions test and the obligation to anticipate the off cycle for EuroVI. What is the potential of the NOxTrap technology in this context ... 

Paynter, S. and M. S. Tite (2001), The evolution of glazing technologies in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, in Shortland, A. J. (ed.), The Social Context of Technological Change - Egypt and the Near East 1650-1550 BC, Oxbow, Oxford, UK. 

Henderson, Linda Dalrymple. 1998. Duchamp in Context Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works. Princeton Princeton University Press. 

Electrochemical technology has had a long association, for instance, with the pulp and paper industry through the supply of classical bleaching chemicals like sodium hydroxide, chlorine, sodium hypochlorite and sodium chlor-ate/chlorine dioxide . In this context the reader is referred to an excellent review paper by Oloman Electrochemical Synthesis and Separation Technology in the Pulp and Paper Industry [129]. 

The technology in this context was first transferred to NPA who named it explosive vapor detection (EVD), and then later Havard Bach renamed and broadened the concept to REST. MEDDS was more scientifically controllable because the training and use of the dogs were separated from the field and sampling problems. 

For the strictly technological materials illustrated in the Large Glass, see throughout Henderson, Duchamp in Context. 

Frederic Lawrence Holmes, Eighteenth-Century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise (Berkeley, California Office for History of Science Technology, University of California, 1989. Ursula Klein, Origin of the Concept of Chemical Compound, Science in Contexts 7 (1994) 163-204. Ursula Klein, E.F. Geoffroys Table of Different Rapports Observed Between Different Chemical Substances - A Reinterpretation, Amhix i (i995) ... 

It is therefore clear that we need to break out of the narrow confines of risk assessment and develop an enlarged framework for thinking about and assessing technology in the context of public policy. 

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