The Technology Teacher articles from April 2004

The Technology Teacher archives from April 2004

How do your technology students measure up?(In The News & Calendar)
April 1, 2004... Measuring Progress: A Guide to Assessing Students for Technological Literacy is a new guide from ITEA/ CATTS that might be just the tool you need to help assess your students for technological understanding. This publication outlines a process...

Project Prometheus.(In The News & Calendar)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... ITEA is currently working with NASA on Project Prometheus, a multi-decade program that has unique personnel and education requirements. NASA is planning an extensive, long term, education and public outreach program that will focus on...

NCATE online training.(In The News & Calendar)(National Council of Accreditation of Teacher Education)
April 1, 2004... NCATE now has ten online training modules available on NCATE standards and procedures that offer an outstanding training and professional development opportunity for education faculty, liberal arts faculty, and P-12 partners, as well as...

ASEE electronic newsletter.(In The News & Calendar)(American Society for Engineering Education)
April 1, 2004... The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has introduced a new electronic newsletter that will address the growing role of engineering in K-12 education. Free of charge to subscribers, Go Engineering! will explore the many ways that...

Free CD from NAHB.(In The News & Calendar)(Building Homes of Our Own)(National Association of Home Builders)
April 1, 2004... The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has created "Building Homes of Our Own," a CD-ROM with teaching materials for the classroom that contains cross-curricular learning activities for the middle school level. It is free to...

Martian imaging.(In The News & Calendar)
April 1, 2004... Transmissions from the Mars rover involve massive amounts of data that must be quickly viewed, studied, and shared. NASA scientists are interactively planning rover movements using 3D photorealistic virtual reality reconstructions of the...

Gallup Poll on the public's attitude toward the public schools.(In The News & Calendar)
April 1, 2004... A recent Gallup Poll has studied the public's attitudes toward the public schools. The poll indicates: * The public has high regard for the public schools, wants needed improvement to come through those schools, and has little interest in...

Calendar.(In The News & Calendar)(Calendar)
April 1, 2004... April 14-17, 2004 The Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) will hold its Annual Conference & Exhibition at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel. Visit www.ACEI.org or e-mail conferences@acei.org for additional information....

2004 ITEA/Gallup poll on technology.(You & ITEA)
April 1, 2004... ITEA's Technology for All Americans Project is contracting with the Gallup Organization to administer a survey sampling of the general adult population in the United States on their perceptions of technology. The basis for the content of the...

2004-2005 TECC officers announced.(You & ITEA)(Technology Educatoion for Children Council)
April 1, 2004... PRESIDENT: Vince Childress, North Carolina A&T, childres@ncat.edu SECRETARY: Karen Riem, Central Connecticut State University, Riemk@ccsu.edu TREASURER: Wendy Ku, The Ohio State University, WendyAKu@hotmail.com VP--COMMUNICATION:...

Application for annual conference participation.(You & ITEA)(International Technology Education Association)
April 1, 2004... The Application to Present at ITEA's 67th Annual Conference in Kansas City, MO is now available online at www.iteawww.org and is also available as an insert in this journal. The conference will be held April 3-5, 2005. The theme is "Preparing...

New ITEA Publications Catalog.(You & ITEA)(International Technology Education Association)
April 1, 2004... The 2003 ITEA Publications Catalog is now available online at www. iteawww.org. Browse the catalog for all the latest ITEA gift items and publications. In addition to ITEA-CATTS-TfAAP's Measuring Progress and ITEA-CATTS' Models for Introducing...

Dreamweaver and Flash: strategies for updating communication systems instruction; one of the underlying constructs that technology education has always excelled in is the practical application of theory.
April 1, 2004... The rate of innovation and change impacting technology education communication systems instruction has been vigorous for longer than most people can remember. Trends have included analog systems being replaced by digital systems, integration of...

Reinventing time.(The Space Place)
April 1, 2004... What do planet Earth, a swinging pendulum, a quartz crystal, and a Cesium atom have in common? They have all been used by humans to measure time. They represent humanity's progress through time in measuring time itself. But what is it, really,...

Application for annual conference participation.
April 1, 2004... ITEA Kansas City 2005 Conference April 3-5 67th Annual ITEA Conference Kansas City, Missouri April 3-5, 2005 Application for ITEA 2005 Conference Participation All technology education professionals are invited to participate in the...

Getting in sync with nature.(The Space Place)
April 1, 2004... The Analemma: Calibrating to Nature Our time "measuring system" has taken on a life of its own, bearing only an approximate resemblance to the natural occurrences it set out to measure. The "analemma equation of time" was created to...

Puzzling out form: design visualization: new technology often presents the opportunity for the designer to imagine new forms.(From IDSA)
April 1, 2004... This article is addressed to helping your students develop an aptitude for seeing relationships between elements and puzzling out new forms in doing so. Four different approaches are presented for your use. Each illustrates a way that...

RFID: a revolution in automatic data recognition.(Resources In Technology)(radio frequency identification)
April 1, 2004... Introduction Radio frequency identification of unique products in distribution and supply chains appears to be a burgeoning revolution for some of the world's largest companies. Companies both large and small produce and distribute...

Assessment of technological literacy: a national academies perspective: the Committee on Assessing Technological Literacy began meeting in early 2003 and expects to publish a report in late 2004.
April 1, 2004... The 2000 publication of Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology (ITEA, 2000/2002) was a critical point in the history of technology education. The standards defined, for the first time, a systematic and...

2004 directory of ITEA institutional members.(Institutional Members)(International Technology Education Organization)
April 1, 2004... For further information, contact the appropriate faculty member. LEGEND Degrees 1 Bachelor's Degree 2 Master's Degree 3 Fifth Year Program 4 Sixth Year Program 5 Advanced Standing Certificate 6 Doctoral Degree...