science, technology, and society lesson 2 beed 19 for enhancing literary skills

1. HELLO MONDAY!
IT'S TIME TO ACCOMPLISH
SOMETHING TODAY!

2. TODAY IS THE DAY TO LEARN
SOMETHING NEW!

3. "All our dreams can
come true if we have
the courage to pursue
them."
-WALT DISNEY

4. STUDENT SELF- PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
QUIZZES 10%
RECITATION 10%
ATTENDANCE 10%
PROJECT/OTHER
OUTPUT 30%
MAJOR EXAM 40%
TOTAL 100%

5. GENERAL CONCEPTS AND
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY,
AND SOCIETY HISTORICAL
DEVELOPMENTS

6. This lesson intends to introduce
Science, Technology, and Society
(STS) as a field of study. Further,
this traces the historical roots of
STS as an academic field
following the description of
Science and Technology and
discussion of the same.

7. Why Science, Technology, and
Society?

8. • CMO NO. 20, SERIES OF 2013
• The course deals with interactions
between science and technology and
social, cultural, political, and
economic contexts that shape and
are shaped by them.

9. • This interdisciplinary course engages
students to confront the realities
brought about by science and
technology in society.
• Such realities pervade the personal,
the public, and the global aspects of
our living and are integral to human
development.

10. • Scientific knowledge and technological
development happen in the context of society
with all its socio-political, cultural, economic,
and philosophical underpinnings at play
• This course seeks to instill reflective
knowledge in the students that they are able to
live the good life and display ethical decision
making in the face of scientific and
technological advancement. This course
includes mandatory topics on climate change
and environmental awareness.

11. GENERAL CONCEPTS IN
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND
SOCIETY

12. Science is as old as
the world itself.
From the genesis
of time science has
existed.

13. The course discusses how science influenced
human society and vice versa. It seeks to
instill reflective knowledge in the students so
that they are able to live the good life and
display ethical decision-making in both social
and scientific dilemmas.

14. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
• Dynamic processes engaged in by
man to satisfy two basic needs –
the thirst for knowledge and the
material requirements for human
survival and prosperity
• Science and technology had been
around even before the words
biology, physics, chemistry,
engineering, and agriculture were
coined

15. SCIENCE
• The description, understanding and prediction of physical
phenomena through the use and generation of verifiable
theories, laws, and principles.
• Research and development is a usual activities associated
with science as a process. It involves the acquisition of new
knowledge and the utilization of such knowledge to devise
new or improved products and processes.

16. Technology
• The use of scientific knowledge and/or empirical somehow for the
production, improvement, and distribution of goods and services, as
well as the satisfaction of other material needs. On the other hand, it
is more related to economic activity.
• The outputs of technological activity are necessarily composed of
both “software” and “hardware”. Software refers to methods,
techniques, organization, and management. Hardware pertains to
tools, equipment, machines, and materials (UNESCO, 1979; Posadas,
1985).

17. Technology
• Technology The core activity of technology is technological
innovation that seeks to transform the prototype inventions of
Research and Development into commercial product or
process (Posadas, 1985).
• Another important activity is the utilization of technology
itself. The actual use of technology in the production process
points out the potentials as well as the problems associated
with a particular technology.

18. Society
• Society Group of persons joined together to form a
common purpose or by a common interest. They come to
learn and perform behavior expected of them.
• The society makes use of science to come up with better
technology in order for its people to live in accordance
with their necessities. The human successes and failures
revolve around military, economic, and medical
significance.

19. Science and technology can either
yield a positive or a negative result to
human survival. Ethical dilemmas
and social conflict will build up in
light of abounding beliefs and culture
that are slowly disintegrating or vice
versa, vis-à-vis the changes made by
science and technology if our society.