In this chapter some practical issues related to teaching about technology will be dealt with. Not all practical issues though, but only those that have to do with teaching about technology aimed at helping learners to acquire a proper concept of technology. After all, that is why we made our survey through the philosophy of technology: to find out what a proper concept of technology is. And as we saw, there is certainly good reason to make a very conscious effort to conceptualize technology in a proper way, because young people as well as adults can have all sorts of misconceptions. Besides that, existing curricula appear not always to capture the main aspects of technology. Even is they do, there are still all sorts of practical issues that need to be taken into account when teaching for a proper conceptualization of technology. Such issues will be discussed in this chapter.
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