Monahan

6. In your own words, tell what the term technological culture means to you.

A technological culture is how the people in that culture engage in technology and its multiple uses. For example, looking at the technological culture of the MET program would mean to look at how the students in the program interact with technology on a regular basis. Considering we use distance learning and virtual learning environments for our courses, we are engaging with technology as an essential component of our cultural make-up. The artifacts we use to inform our cultural understanding of the program are technology-based as well, in that they include Web 2.0 tools. The traditions that we prescribe to include making regular contact with one another through weekly discussion posts, blogs or other forms of asynchronous and synchronous communications. Therefore, technology is actually inherent of the culture of the MET program. However, the school I work at does not have technology at the core of its culture; yet, the school still has a technological culture and this can be understood by looking again at the way that technology affects how the group interacts, or how the group uses technology to interact. So, we would look at the acceptance and integration of technology in the school environment as well as what efforts are made in the school to introduce technology. Therefore, the attitude towards technology at the school would inform the school's technological culture.