Technological Processes
科技的過程
The body of technological knowledge, according to our frameworks and standards, includes our ability to manipulate matter and information.
科技的知識體，根據我們的框架和標準，包括我們的能力和信息處理此事。
According to Negroponte (1995) in his book Being Digital and other curricular models, the world can be classified as consisting of atoms and bits.
Atoms account for the physical world of living and nonliving matter while bits make up the world of information.
Information and materials technology represent, therefore, the know-how we apply to manipulating our world.
These processing concepts apply to all situations as we provide
goods and services ranging from health care to automobiles, from entertainment to structures, from travel to education, and
from family life to our global community.
They are fundamental processes that apply universally. Therefore, they are concepts that, if taught and understood by students,
will be transferable to many situations.
Conceptual understandings will also provide students with an ability to deal with technological change in the future, both
personally and professionally.
While information and materials technology could appear in the school program as technological systems of the designed world,
these technologies are significant to the extent that they will also be a major part of the total curriculum design.
Technological processes are a result of the knowledge domain in the technological method.
The processes usually include processing information and processing matter/materials, both living and nonliving.
Depending on a person’s perspective, instrumentation is sometimes included as a part of processing information and energy is often separated from the bigger concept of processing matter.
In a practical sense, either way will get the job done.
Design is sometimes considered as a universal technical concept and included as a technological process.
Again, this is not correct in a pure sense but does work well
as a practical application.
