ABSTRACT
Despite the plethora of technological artifacts that surround us, many of us find the technical detail of engineering design to be a barrier to understanding what turns out to be a very human process. As a consequence, we may be missing opportunities to help students learn important language practices. The language arts teachers, can, in other words, have real and continuing impact on the quality of life in a technological society by helping students learn how to remake the world through words. Innovations in household technologies like the computerized sewing machine are increasingly driven by developments in a hybrid of mechanical engineering and electronics. In the future, our students will be faced with ever more varied collaborations, many of which we cannot begin to imagine. By affording multiple interpretations such as the, design texts gives students important tools with which to define design goals.
