Perspectives and Issues on the New National Curriculum of Technology Education from a Viewpoint of Technological Literacy

Abstract

This paper examined a relation between the direction of the new national curriculum of technology education published in 2017 and the concept of technological literacy proposed by ITEA/ITEEA and JSTE. As a result, this study showed that the object and the contents of new technology education aims to promote students both abilities of technological governance and technological innovation from the viewpoint of students’ technological literacy. In addition, a survey was conducted on 88 technology teachers in order to grasp their consciousness toward this educational reform. Findings of it revealed that technology teacher could almost highly understand the concept of technological literacy. However, they felt difficulties for their practices of lessons of the Content “D. Information Technology”, in which the programming of interactive contents added, and “Integrated Problem Solving”, in which placed in final term of 9th grade. Based on the above results, this study discussed the perspectives and issues on instructional design in new technology education.