Introduction: Defining Technological Literacy
John R. Dakers · Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks · 2006
There is, more than ever before, a growing need to understand the “character of contemporary life” (Borgmann, 1984). We are transforming our world at an alarming rate and in so doing, we are alienating ourselves from it. Our technologically mediated existence is threatening the very democratic process itself. We need to develop a new language, a new literacy, in order to both understand our brave new world, and learn how to live a meaningful existence in it. Where better to start this new literacy than in technology education? These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.