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Ask a young child what technology is, and most probably he or she will start listing examples of technical artifacts. That is what several empirical studies among young people have shown (in Chap. 7 we will discuss that in more detail). Technical artifacts are our immediate encounter with technology. We may not see all that much of all the process behind technology, but the outcomes of such processes, artifacts, are everywhere. In this Chapter we will explore how we can distinguish technical artifacts from other objects in our lifeworld, and also how they have their place of that lifeworld and interact with us.
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de Vries, M.J. (2016). Technological Artifacts. In: Teaching about Technology. Contemporary Issues in Technology Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32945-1_2
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