Technology education is applied art, applied business, applied science, applied math, applied sociology. It is design, communications, engineering, and personal development all wrapped into a constantly evolving, adapting, future thinking and creativity leaping package. We will train the auto mechanic, the machinist and the carpenter. We will also train the infonaut, the cybrarian, the visionary, the engineer, the artist, the McWorker. My hope, my dream, is that my students of today will be able to look back from their world of the year 2020, and appreciate the tools they recieved in tech ed.
Technology is the application of knowledge to develop the tools our society requires to run.
It is a combination of science, art, engineering, economics, and social studies that is brought together with creativity and ingenuity to improve the quality of our lives. Technology is about making it better, faster, easier, more economical, or more efficient. It is about making the world a better place to live. In times long ago, during the Agricultural Era, technological improvements were few and far between. Progress was slow, and might have taken generations to come about.