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Last edited on: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 |
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Technology Coach Handbook |
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Technology, any modification of the natural world designed by human beings to solve human problem, enhance human life, or extend human capability, was identified by the United States Department of Labor as an essential workplace competency in a 1992 report called the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills ( SCANS). SCANS stated that students should be able to select equipment and tools, apply technology to specific tasks, and maintain and troubleshoot equipment.* Cutting edge, change, thinking out of the box. . . words and phrases that get tossed about like so much fluff by those proposing (and selling) “new technology.” It is only through a thorough, introspective, economic, and analytic review of our present state and future goals that we can begin the application of technology in the educational processes and in turn, the life process. This implementation will enable us to realize the implied promise supporting the concepts expressed by these words. Only then can we improve the human condition. *New Jersey Department of Education
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