Concern that technological literacy is being narrowly interpreted.

Concern that technological literacy is being narrowly interpreted. There is little evidence that high-tech classrooms have doneanything to improve student achievement, and instead may be hurting andundermining children's real technological literacy Technological literacy is the ability to understand and evaluate technology. It complements technological competency, which is the ability to create, repair, or operate specific technologies, commonly computers. , according to according toprep.1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.2. In keeping with: according to instructions.3. anew report. The Alliance for Childhood, a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive.Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. advocacy group,issued the report bemoaning the approximately $55 billion being spent inU.S. schools on computer equipment, training, services and othertechnologies to advance technological literacy. "The lack of evidence or an expert consensus that computerswill improve student achievement--despite years of efforts by high-techcompanies and government agencies to demonstrate otherwise--is itselfcompelling evidence of the need for change," according to"Tech Tonic: Towards a New Literacy of Technology.""It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to scrap ... national, state, and local policiesthat require all students and all teachers to use computers in everygrade, and that eliminate even the possibility of alternatives." In "Tech Tonic," dozens of experts in child development,education, health and technology challenge education standards andindustry assertions that all teachers and children, from preschool tograde 12, should use computers in the classroom in order to developtechnological literacy. Financial and political connections betweeneducation officials and school technology vendors are fueling the pushof technology on children, the report said, and it calls for newprinciples for using technology in the classroom. The Alliance proposes a new definition of technological literacy as"the mature capacity to participate creatively, critically, andresponsibly in making technological choices that serve democracy,ecological ecologicalemanating from or pertaining to ecology.ecological biomesee biome.ecological climaxthe state of balance in an ecosystem when its inhabitants have established their permanent relationships with each sustainability, and a just society." Shelli Meade, assistant project manager for the InternationalTechnology Education Association's (ITEA ITEA International Technology Education AssociationITEA Information Technology for European AdvancementITEA International Test and Evaluation AssociationITEA International Tuba-Euphonium Association (Baltimore, MD)) Technology for AllAmericans Project, told Techniques that she applauds concerns raised bythe Alliance regarding the nation's reliance on computer literacy Understanding computers and related systems. It includes a working vocabulary of computer and information system components, the fundamental principles of computer processing and a perspective for how non-technical people interact with technical people. to develop a 21st century technologically literate society. ITEA is theprofessional organization of technology teachers that advocates fortechnological literacy for all Americans. Meade said the real question raised in the report is: What istechnological literacy? It is critical that a distinction be madebetween education technology literacy--which focuses primarily oncomputer usage and the Internet--and technological literacy as a whole,which is more complex and extends to virtually every area of our lives,Meade said. According to ITEA, technology education "provides anopportunity for students to learn about the processes and knowledgerelated to technology that are needed to solve problems and extend humancapabilities." And technological literacy is the ability to use,manage, understand, and assess that technology. But according to Meade, the Alliance's call for a newdefinition of technological literacy is unnecessary, because there isalready a widely accepted definition, along with standards, that hasbeen adopted in 43 states. She added that the federal No Child LeftBehind Act The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-110), commonly known as NCLB (IPA: /ˈnɪkəlbiː/), is a United States federal law that was passed in the House of Representatives on May 23, 2001 (NCLB NCLB No Child Left Behind (US education initiative)) is making it even more difficult for states todistinguish the broad world of technological literacy from educationtechnology literacy, by mandating that states have every childtechnologically literate by the 2005-2006 school year--but not outliningwhat constitutes technological literacy. So, in order to meet the NCLBrequirement, states have focused entirely on computer technology in theclassroom, unwittingly reinforcing the notion that technologicalliteracy is attained by using computers, electronic gadgetry gadg��et��ry?n.1. Gadgets considered as a group.2. The design or construction of gadgets.Noun 1. gadgetry - appliances collectively; "laborsaving gadgetry" and theInternet.