I would even need to acknowledge that these changes have risen to the international level for educational reform. The public is demanding options in public education where vouchers along with charter schools are a reality. The success of these educational options have yet to be proven, but they are issues that do, in fact effect our curriculum subject area. As a person who uses technology everyday, I would suspect that technology by its very nature is at the heart of these changes. Technology itself does not remain dormant at any particular level of development.
Technology IS change.
We, as Technology Education practitioners, need to keep up with these changes. There lies a paradox. Technology as it is perceived by the general public means one thing, computers. Or, if you try to explain that its shop, your audience gets picture of a subject content area that is of a past purpose. Technology, as a term used in the politic circle in Albany, has a meaning similar to these ideas and is also reflective of the public it serves.