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Applying the Scientific Method to Technology

The document discusses two examples of applying the scientific method and the historical development of computers. For the first example, a student observes they are getting low math scores and hypothesizes spending less time on mobile games and more studying may improve scores. They conduct an experiment spending 1 hour on games and 4 studying, then analyze exam scores to form a conclusion. The second example outlines how computers evolved from room-sized machines needed to solve population tabulation problems, to the development of programmable looms and proposed calculating machines, to modern computers used for many purposes due to inventions like the World Wide Web. If technology did not exist, humankind would likely still be limited to manual computation and would lack many modern

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Applying the Scientific Method to Technology

The document discusses two examples of applying the scientific method and the historical development of computers. For the first example, a student observes they are getting low math scores and hypothesizes spending less time on mobile games and more studying may improve scores. They conduct an experiment spending 1 hour on games and 4 studying, then analyze exam scores to form a conclusion. The second example outlines how computers evolved from room-sized machines needed to solve population tabulation problems, to the development of programmable looms and proposed calculating machines, to modern computers used for many purposes due to inventions like the World Wide Web. If technology did not exist, humankind would likely still be limited to manual computation and would lack many modern

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Example

Activity 2: Technology as a Way of Revealing

1. Think of a problem in our daily life where you can apply the scientific method

Observe Low score in Mathematic during exam.

I am spending too much time in playing mobile games rather


Identify the Problem
than studying.

Lessen the number of hours in playing mobile games and add


Formulate Hypothesis
more time in studying.

I will spend 1 hour in playing mobile games and 4 hours in


Conduct Experiment
studying Math.

I will determine whether my scores increase in all the exams in


Gather and Analyze
Math or not.
If my exams in Math are higher than my score before therefore I
Formulate Conclusion can conclude that spending lesser time in playing mobile games
is effective.
2. Present one historical development in technology by completing the table below.
Field: Computer

Before Human Condition Discoverers After


The computer was The government France Joseph Marie Computers
born not for sought a faster way Jacquard invented nowadays are not
entertainment or to get the job done, the loom. limited in computing
email but out of a giving rise to punch- and solving
need to solve a card based Charles Babbage mathematical
serious number- computers that took conceived of a problems. Computer
crunching crisis. By up entire rooms. steam-driven are used for
1880, US had a calculating machine entertainment,
population so large that would be able education, business
that it took more to compute tables of and many more. It
than seven years to numbers. brings different
tabulate. opportunities for
Tim Berners-Lee different people.
developed HTML
giving rise to the
World Wide Web.

3. What would happen to humankind if technology did not exist?

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