"Technology Education" is the commonly used title for technology curricula. However an increasing number of schools have dropped the "education" portion using "technology" alone as the subject's title in the same way that "science education" is known as "science" "mathematics education" as "mathematics", etc.

As a school subject, technology develops the technological literacy and capabilities of all students grades K-12. Its curriculum focuses on the development and applications of technology and the effects technology has on people, society and the environment.

The world has changed more in the past two hundred years than it has throughout all previous history. The rate of change is continuing at an ever accelerating pace and is on an increasing magnitude. Today, science and technology are moving ahead on a parallel path. Each feeds the other and enables more advances as problems of our era are creatively solved.

Technology Education is solving practical problems, using knowledge, tools, and skills, action-based, and increases human potential. 

What we are doing in the classroom is getting the students to develop problem solving capabilities and critical thinking.

To be a technology education program the content must meet certain criteria. The program or activities should address technological systems such as Energy, Manufacturing/Construction, Transportation, or Communications. The programs should be knowledge based. Not just tools and processes. It must look at the social/cultural impacts of technology on people, cultures, and the environment. Finally, the program must be activity based, using tools and materials to solve problems. Technology education can serve to provide genuine interdisciplinary connections to other school subjects, the world of work, and to life experiences.