Technology and Religion

2006 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Susan Ella George
Keyword(s):  
Life Science ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Technological Product

This text examines technology and religion. We start by pausing to define technology. We find that the superficial definitions describe examples of technology. The deeper definitions seek to identify its nature and essence. Overall, technology is to be distinguished from science. Unlike science, technology is applied to daily life. Science seeks knowledge as an end in itself. Science can be considered to be “neutral,” without any moral or ethical bias, while technology can never be neutral because it is applied. In technology, there are questions of what applications are made and what is done with the technological product.

scholarly journals Educational Challenges of Molecular Life Science: Characteristics and Implications for Education and Research

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena A.E. Tibell ◽  
Carl-Johan Rundgren
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Pure Sciences ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Technical Innovation ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
Starting Point

Molecular life science is one of the fastest-growing fields of scientific and technical innovation, and biotechnology has profound effects on many aspects of daily life—often with deep, ethical dimensions. At the same time, the content is inherently complex, highly abstract, and deeply rooted in diverse disciplines ranging from “pure sciences,” such as math, chemistry, and physics, through “applied sciences,” such as medicine and agriculture, to subjects that are traditionally within the remit of humanities, notably philosophy and ethics. Together, these features pose diverse, important, and exciting challenges for tomorrow's teachers and educational establishments. With backgrounds in molecular life science research and secondary life science teaching, we (Tibell and Rundgren, respectively) bring different experiences, perspectives, concerns, and awareness of these issues. Taking the nature of the discipline as a starting point, we highlight important facets of molecular life science that are both characteristic of the domain and challenging for learning and education. Of these challenges, we focus most detail on content, reasoning difficulties, and communication issues. We also discuss implications for education research and teaching in the molecular life sciences.

Call for Manuscripts: 2013 Focus Issue – February 2011

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 345
Keyword(s):  
Common Core ◽  
Common Core State Standards ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
State Standards ◽  
Core State ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Principles And Standards ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Stem Interest

Principles and Standards for School Mathematics emphasizes the importance of students being able to recognize and apply mathematics in other subject areas and disciplines as well as to daily life. Fostering development in the integrated fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, “is a priority, not only because we need today’s students to become tomorrow’s leaders in innovation and help our economy, but also because we need to increase STEM interest and skills overall for everybody” (eSchool News 2009). As a key component of their STEM experiences, students must “develop a depth of understanding and ability to apply mathematics to novel situations, as college students and employees regularly do” (Common Core State Standards 2010).

scholarly journals Models: the fourth dimension of computer science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Thalheim
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Fourth Dimension ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Universal Instrument ◽  
Models And Modelling ◽  
Use Of Models

AbstractModels are a universal instrument in science, technology, and daily life. They function as instruments in almost every scenario. Any human activity can be (and is) supported by models, e.g. reason, explain, design, act, predict, explore, communicate, collaborate, interact, orient, direct, guide, socialises, perceive, reflect, develop, making sense, teach, learn, imagine, etc. This universal suitability is also the basis for a wide use of models and modelling in Computer Science and Engineering. We claim that models form the fourth dimension in Computer Science. This paper sketches and systematises the main ingredients of the study model and modelling.

scholarly journals Estímulo à conservação e preservação do material bibliográfico: relato de experiência>Fostering the conservation and preservation of the bibliographic material: report of experience

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Inaya Gomes de Andrade ◽  
Fabiana de Melo Amaral Gonçalves Pinto ◽  
Renata Mara de Almeida ◽  
Suelen de Mendonça Soares Cóquero
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
Awareness Campaign ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Repair Costs ◽  
Conservation Awareness ◽  
Science Technology And Innovation

Relato de experiência sobre o planejamento e o desenvolvimento da Campanha de Conscientização a Conservação e Preservação do Material Bibliográfico, organizada pela equipe da Biblioteca da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal Fluminense, cujo objetivo foi o de sensibilizar os usuários na conservação e preservação do acervo desta e de outras bibliotecas. A Campanha, realizada na XVIII Semana Científica da Escola de Enfermagem Aurora de Afonso Costa, parte integrante da Semana Nacional de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação da Universidade Federal Fluminense, ocorrida em outubro de 2011, teve, além da exposição dos livros danificados e orientações aos usuários, concurso, mostra de materiais, charges sobre o cotidiano das bibliotecas, custos para a reparação de livros, os profissionais que executam essa função, entre outras apresentações. Como resultados, além de relatos de experiência do público abordado, houve a aceitação e inúmeras demonstrações de incentivo escritas no livro de registros. Ações como essas são importantes não só em campanhas, mas através da constante promoção de atividades na biblioteca que sensibilizem o usuário sobre a questão da preservação do acervo. Palavras-chave: Conservação. Preservação. Campanha. Planejamento. Biblioteca universitária. Abstract Experience report on planning and development of the Conservation Awareness Campaign and Preservation of library materials, organized by the staff of the Library School of Nursing, Fluminense Federal University, whose goal was to raise awareness among users in the conservation and preservation of the collection of this and other libraries. The campaign, held at the eighteenth week of the Scientific School of Nursing Aurora Afonso Costa, part of National Week of Science, Technology and Innovation, Fluminense Federal University, held in October 2011, had, besides the exposure of damaged books and guidance to users, competition, material shows, cartoons about the daily life of libraries, for the repair costs of books, the professionals that perform this function, among other presentations. As a result, and experience reports from the public addressed, there was acceptance and many expressions of encouragement written to the log book. Actions like these are important not only in campaigns, but through the constant promotion of the library activities that sensitize the user to the issue of preservation of the collection. Keywords: Conservation. Preservation. Campaign. Planning. University library.

scholarly journals The Case for Biocalculus: Design, Retention, and Student Performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. ar25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Diaz Eaton ◽  
Hannah Callender Highlander
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Traditional Course ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
Traditional Courses ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Authentic Life

Calculus is one of the primary avenues for initial quantitative training of students in all science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, but life science students have been found to underperform in the traditional calculus setting. As a result, and because of perceived lack of its contribution to the understanding of biology, calculus is being actively cut from biology program requirements at many institutions. Here, we present an alternative: a model for learning mathematics that sees the partner disciplines as crucial to student success. We equip faculty with information to engage in dialogue within and between disciplinary departments involved in quantitative education. This includes presenting a process for interdisciplinary development and implementation of biology-oriented Calculus I courses at two institutions with different constituents, goals, and curricular constraints. When life science students enrolled in these redesigned calculus courses are compared with life science students enrolled in traditional calculus courses, students in the redesigned calculus courses learn calculus concepts and skills as well as their traditional course peers; however, the students in the redesigned courses experience more authentic life science applications and are more likely to stay and succeed in the course than their peers who are enrolled in traditional courses. Therefore, these redesigned calculus courses hold promise in helping life science undergraduate students attain Vision and Change recommended competencies.

Digital Knowledge Integration (DKI): When Transhumanism (H+) Meets Digital Humanities (DH)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Waliya, Yohanna Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
New Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
Digital Knowledge

To a large extent, the world has come to embrace digitalization which currently permeates all human endeavors and life. However, the process of digitalizing human beings themselves, making them Transhuman and allowing the integration of the digital into every aspect of our daily life has made life both paradoxically appreciative and problematic as it increases the global nature of humanity and its endeavors, posing threats as well as benefits. Merging Transhumanism (H+) with the Digital Humanities (DH) may minimize those threats but the dual evolving human-technological thoughts have been hoofing at a distance to each other for decades whereas innately they share the same perceptions on the future of the digitalization and human beings. This paper is channeled towards breaking the barriers between the two through the help of the critical comparative lens from the conceptual theoretical framework called Digital Knowledge Integration (DKI) using hypothetic-deductive method of reading two e-literatures: Digital_Humanities by Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner & Jeffrey Schnapp published in 2012 and The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science. Technology, and Philosophy of Human Future edited by Max More and Natasha Vita-More in 2013 including other literatures as we need them. This research is also aimed at integrating knowledge into singular model and raising scholarly debates on the new development.

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