Today technology is a broad concept that deals with the usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects the ability to control and adapt to the environment. Today technology is use to create rich environments where student work shows evidence of conceptual understanding beyond recall. Technology is use to encourage students to engage in activities that develop understanding and create personal meaning through reflection.

1. Technology as Objects

Tools, machines, instruments, weapons, appliances - the physical devices of technical performance

2. Technology as Knowledge

The know-how behind technological innovation

3. Technology as Activities

What people do - their skills, methods, procedures, routines

4. Technology as a Process

Begins with a need and ends with a solution

5. Technology as a Sociotechnical System

The manufacture and use of objects involving people and other objects in combination