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In the past several decades, curriculum developers, engineering professional societies, science centers, and others have devoted effort to initiatives that have improved technological literacy, even if that was not their explicit aim. These span everything from projects to develop instructional materials for the classroom to television programs and museum exhibits.
Given the absence of technological literacy on the agendas of both the policy-making and education communities in the United States, these initiatives, although modest by comparison with other literacy initiatives, constitute a resource upon which more ambitious efforts might be built.
A major impediment to lasting educational reform is the lack of information about how people, especially students, learn about technology in formal and informal settings. However, interest in the science of learning is burgeoning among educators and policy makers, which is encouraging for the future of technological literacy.
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