Week 1-2 LM-1 Introduction to Science and Technology PDF

INTRODUCTION to Science & Technology STS 2nd Semester, SY 2023-2024  To define S&T To describe the relationship...

INTRODUCTION to Science & Technology STS 2nd Semester, SY 2023-2024  To define S&T To describe the relationship between Science, Technology and To compare Society S & T in To identify/ terms of their enumerate the contributions different roles of S&T LEARNING OBJECTIVES Introduction to Science, Technology & Society WHAT is SCIENCE? ❑Latin word: ‘scientia’ - knowledge ❑refers to a methodical and systematic activity of building and organizing knowledge about how the universe behaves through OBSERVATION, EXPERIMENTATION or both. Photo credit: https://www.thehindu.com/education/jy3dkh/article33948588.ece/alternates/FREE_615/27epbs-science Introduction to Science, Technology & Society WHAT is TECHNOLOGY? ❑ Greek root word: ‘techne’ – art, skill, cunning of hand ❑ the application of scientific knowledge, laws, and principles to produce services, materials, tools, and machines aimed at solving real-world problems https://www.mycomputercareer.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/The-Guide-to-Information-Technology-and-Its-Role-During-COVID-19.jpg  CONTENTS 1 What is Science? 2 What is Technology? 3 How are Science and Technology related? Photo credit: https://www.scrippscollege.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/Science-Technology-and-Society-1680x1220-1.png 1 What is Science? 1 - Learning new facts (discoveries) THE HUBBLE DEEP FIELD: The “deep” in Hubble Deep Field refers to the telescope’s ability to look at some of these far, faint objects. Looking at far-away objects in space is like seeing HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE back in time. What is Science? 2 - Solving problems (Scientific Method) https://www.google.com.ph/search?q=science+definition&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjPmKTR_tfTAhUIx7wKHYmdBcgQ_ AUIBigB&biw=1366&bih=645&dpr=1#tbm=isch&q=climate+change+cartoon&imgrc=pUolAkl0HhjWJM: What is Science? 3 - the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment – Oxford dictionary https://www.google.com.ph/search?q=science+definition&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjPmKTR_tfT AhUIx7wKHYmdBcgQ_AUIBigB&biw=1366&bih=645&dpr=1#tbm=isch&q=science+definition+cartoon&imgrc=CyB2anvUE1EU zM:  2 What is Technology? 1 – creating/inventing things https://www.google.com.ph/search?q=science+definition&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjPmKTR_tfTAhUIx7wKHYmdBcgQ_AUIBigB&biw=1366&bih=645&dpr=1#tbm=isch&q=technology&i mgrc=62wfRSqF1RgKtM:  What is Technology? 2 - things that fulfill our needs and desires or perform certain functions 3 – Application of understanding of natural laws to the solution of practical problems ❑ Science, Technology and Society is the study of how society, politics, and culture affect scientific research and technological innovation, and how these, in turn, affect society, politics and culture. ❑ The interdisciplinary field of Science, Technology, and Society examines the ways in which society influences the creation of scientific knowledge and technological development. ❑ At the same time, it seeks to understand the ways science and technology affect our lives and communities.  ✔ WHEN were airplanes invented and by WHOM? WHEN The history of Science & ✔ WHAT medical discovery WHAT Technology answers HOW led to the introduction of sterilization, vaccines , questions about our and antibiotics world’s greatest discoveries and inventions… WHY ✔ HOW are bridges built STS is a relatively young field that combines previously independent and older disciplines : History of science Philosophy of science Sociology of science ? What is a law of nature? Are there any in non- ‘When we think about the physical sciences like biology and psychology? Sociology: type of science, a logical system that bases knowledge on direct, past, we think about systematic observation. ? What kind of data can be used to distinguish history. When we think between real causes and accidental regularities? Scientific sociology: study of society about the future, we think based on systematic observation of social behavior. about science. Science ? How much evidence and what kinds of evidence do we need before we accept hypotheses? Scientific evidence sometimes builds upon its past, but contradicts common sense explanations also, simultaneously, ? Why do scientists continue to rely on models of social behavior. and theories which they know are at least partially It is not what we do not know that get us into denies it.’ inaccurate (like Newton's physics)? trouble, it is what we know that is not true. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/media/images/March- of-Intellect-1828-William-Heath-Trustees.width-860.jpg https://undsci.berkeley.edu/images/us101/sci_nonsci.jpg https://physicsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/sociology202.jpg  STS as an ACADEMIC FIELD NOVEL Area of CONCERN OBJECTIVE To prepare students a relatively How the different to respond critically, aspects of society reflectively, new SHAPE & INFLUENCE proactively to the the progression and academic challenges posed by further development Science and discipline of S & T Technology in the contemporary world 3 How are Science and Technology related? We live in a SOCIETY absolutely dependent on S & T. As problems in S & T continue to rise and become more observable and felt, the need to pay attention to their interactions with various aspects of human life (SOCIAL, POLITICAL, and ECONOMIC) becomes even more necessary. Brooks, H. The Relationship between science and technology. Elsevier Science. 1994. 477-486.  SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY 2. Source of tools and techniques for more efficient engineering 3. Research 1. New knowledge design and a knowledge instrumentation, lab which serves as a base for evaluation of techniques, and direct source of ideas feasibility of designs analytical methods used for new technological in research that eventually possibilities find their way into design HOW ARE THEY RELATED? and industrial practices SCIENCE contributes to TECHNOLOGY in at least 6 ways: Brooks, H. The Relationship between science and technology. Elsevier Science. 1994. 477-486.  SCIENCE 5. Creation of a knowledge TECHNOLOGY base that becomes increasingly important in 4. Practice of research 6. Knowledge base the assessment of as a source for that enables more technology in terms of its development and efficient strategies of wider social and assimilation of new applied research, environmental impacts human skills and development, and capabilities eventually refinement of new useful for technology HOW ARE THEY RELATED? technologies SCIENCE contributes to TECHNOLOGY in at least 6 ways: Brooks, H. The Relationship between science and technology. Elsevier Science. 1994. 477-486.  TECHNOLOGY contributes to SCIENCE in at least 2 ways: 1. Providing a fertile source 2. Source of otherwise of novel scientific unavailable questions and thereby also instrumentation and helping to justify the techniques needed to allocation of resources needed to address these address novel and questions in an efficient and more difficult scientific AND timely manner, extending questions more the agenda of science efficiently Brooks, H. The Relationship between science and technology. Elsevier Science. 1994. 477-486. Science & Technology affects one another. Because Hubble telescope has limitation a new space telescope was launch last December 2021 to see the heavenly bodies are accelerating away from us, the light they emit turns to infrared. James Webb Space Telescope is made to see beyond and this telescope will answer the question of the events before the Big Bang. Science & Technology affects one another Thousands of galaxies make up this cluster in the distant universe 4.6 billion light-years away. Hubble's composite image took weeks to achieve, while James Webb’s Hubble Telescope only took 12.5 hours, NASA said. Like Hubble, JWST is expected to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos. It will help us determine whether planets orbiting other stars could support life, and see galaxies that formed just after the Big Bang. The telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data were released during a televised broadcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY in a SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP  WHAT is the ROLE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IN HOW HAS TECHNOLOGY YOUR LIFE? CONTRIBUTED TO SCIENCE? HOW HAS SCIENCE CONTRIBUTED TO TECHNOLOGY? REFLECTION TIME THANK YOU! STS_LM 1-Introduction to S & T