TECHNOLOGY

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What is technology?

• Technology produces objects and develops systems or strategies that solve problems and satisfy our needs from the simplest to the most sophisticated.
• An object can be a tool, machine or household appliance. A system can be the way a train station is managed or the way someone who is hurt on a mountain is rescued.
• Sometimes the process of resolving the problem is very simple and generally consists of various stages in which one or more people are involved.
• Technology

What is technology?

• Technology produces objects and develops systems or strategies that solve problems and satisfy our needs from the simplest to the most sophisticated.
• An object can be a tool, machine or household appliance. A system can be the way a train station is managed or the way someone who is hurt on a mountain is rescued.
• Sometimes the process of resolving the problem is very simple and generally consists of various stages in which one or more people are involved.

Factors in the technological process

• When a solution has been found, it is converted into a technique. This is a skill - something we know how to do and that is used for future technological solutions. This is the base of technological evolution.
• Scientific knowledge and its application are needed to obtain an efficient technological solution. The process involves a combination of procedures and resources to obtain a result.

Factors in the technological process

• When a solution has been found, it is converted into a technique. This is a skill - something we know how to do and that is used for future technological solutions. This is the base of technological evolution.
• Scientific knowledge and its application are needed to obtain an efficient technological solution. The process involves a combination of procedures and resources to obtain a result.

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Classroom workshop

• In the classroom workshop we are going to do two types of work:
• Problem analysis: giving ideas to solve problems, discussing solutions in groups, learning things to help us, etc.
• Hands-on activities: cutting, sticking, using a saw or a drill ...
• Clearly these are different activities that need different spaces. For example:
• Classroom: where we can work on and develop our ideas and projects before we take them into the workshop.
• Workshop: where we can use tools, workbenches, high stools and special machinery ...
• Library: a place for consulting material which will help us complete our projects.
• Storeroom: two areas, one for the materials which we will use and another for each group's projects under construction.

Stages of the technological process

• As a way of practising technological processes, we are going to design a drip irrigation system. Let's look at the stages we have to follow.

SIGNS

• Signs are the resources (graphic, light, sound or text) that we use to show or highlight an instruction. There are four types of graphic signs: mandatory, warning, emergency and prohibition.
• It's important to recognise these signs in the classroom workshop:

APPROACH AND ANALYSIS OF NEEDS AND PROBLEMS

• Before we begin a project, we should ask ourselves what are our needs. The more details and data we have, the easier it will be to get the design right and come up with an appropriate solution.
• In this case, we can find the needs or problems in the instructions for the final task.
• You are going to design and build a homemade drip irrigation system to optimise the consumption of water for plants in a garden or a school vegetable plot.
• Once we have identified the problem, we have to study it in depth.