Byram Hills Central School District

This information has been taken directly from the Accelerate U - Standards and Resource Guides (with approval) from the K-12 Education, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT site. No information in this document has been changed.

Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Three Levels

Standard 5-Technology - Commencement

Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Impacts of Technology

6. Technology can have positive and negative impacts on individuals, society, and the environment and humans have the capability and responsibility to constrain or promote technological development.

Students:

     explain that although technological effects are complex and difficult to predict accurately, humans can control the development and implementation of technology.
     explain how computers and automation have changed the nature of work.
     explain how national security is dependent upon both military and nonmilitary applications of technology.

This is evident, for example, when students:

     develop and implement a technological device that might be used to assist a disabled person perform a task.
     identify a technology which impacts negatively on the environment and design and model a technological fix.
     identify new or emerging technologies and use a futuring technique (e.g., futures wheel, cross impact matrix, Delphi survey) to predict what might be the second and third order impacts.