It also affects social issues and is a major factor in determining the limits of personal choice. The focus of technology education is on the tools, strategies and processes for developing new technological products and services that directly resolve a problem. The technology education - technology integration debate focused mainly on whether or not technology integration meant that technology education should be integrated across the curriculum. The conclusion was that both technology education and technology integration have some common elements, but are quite dissimilar. Technology education is a specific curriculum area concerned primarily with practices and procedures for developing technological solutions to problems.
Technology integration is a very broad issue for education.
It is driven mainly by the rapid evolution in computer and communications technologies and the recognition that education must deal with them in a meaningful way for students. Integrating these technologies into educational practices raises questions of equity of access, funding, skill sets for practitioners, communications practices, and learning outcomes development and accountability tracking. Classroom issues center on information and communications technologies as tools in the teaching and learning process. The technology education curriculum is built on six major outcomes. Technological problem-solving is concerned with analysis of human needs and wants which may be met by technological activity.