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Technology, the Technology Complex and the Paradox of Technological Determinism

Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 2001
This paper examines the working definitions of the term 'technology' across a range of disciplines such as industrial relations, organizational behaviour, operations management and development economics. The precise 'subdefinition' of technology in use depends on the disciplinary problematic. We develop a conceptual device called the technology complex
James Fleck, John Howells
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Progress in technology

Electrical Engineering, 1962
The individual quality of the human voice is, according to L. G. Kersta of Bell Telephone Laboratories, as distinctive as a fingerprint. Acoustic research has produced little “pictures” of one word of a person's speech. The pictures, or voice-prints reveal the patterns of voice energy in the various levels of pitch — patterns that are quite distinctive
Eleanor F. Peck, Samuel Walters
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Using Technology to Teach Technology

Journal for Nurses in Staff Development (JNSD), 2009
As staff development professionals, our goal is to provide cost-effective learning opportunities that meet the objectives of the learner, the program, and the organization. The decision to use instructional technology is based on cost, time, and outcomes. This article describes one organization's use of an inexpensive and versatile software application
Stephanie Colman-Brochu   +2 more
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Technology and competitiveness [PDF]

open access: possibleOxford Review of Economic Policy, 1996
“Technology” and “competitiveness” are two of the most popular buzz-words of our time. Increasingly policy makers on both sides of the Atlantic link the two. But what do we really mean when we talk about the international competitiveness of a country? And what does technology have to do with it? Is there a theory behind this link?
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Technology for Technology's Sake

Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
USING NEW electronic technologies in education continues to provide the structural support needed in order to bring meaning to core subject areas. Integrating these new technologies into the classroom and allowing students to explore them can provide young people with a roadmap to the future. But what about technology education itself?
Matthew Gregoire, John P. Targia
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TECHNOLOGY REVIEWS

School Science and Mathematics, 1996
Interactions: Real Math ‐ Real CareersThe Great Solar System RescueThe Great Ocean ...
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People are people, but technology is not technology

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2008
Ubiquitous computing is about more than having multiple computers in our environment; it is also about computers venturing into completely new environments. In this paper, we examine the impact of computers in the developing world and look at why most interventions to date have failed to address the key needs of the users and their context.
Munier Parker   +2 more
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Technology in the Technology Classroom

2003
Technologies in the classroom are now the norm in schools equipped with multimedia, graphics and animation, access to the Internet, and handheld and remote devices. Students use these technologies as once they used pencils, books, and manipulatives to learn content in all subject areas.
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