The curriculum and method of technology education remain one of the best-kept secrets in all education. Technology education engages students in a wide range of the very latest technologies: digital imaging, lasers, robotics, solar energy, World Wide Web development, magnetic levitation vehicles, analog and digital electronics, flight simulators, computer-aided design, and so forth.
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