Exploring Technology class curriculum has been designed with the fundamental philosophy that techniques of efficiently and effectively applied principles of lifelong learning are a right and a necessity for students to learn and a moral obligation for teachers to teach. Since technology advances at an exponential rate and today's marvels are tomorrow's junk, the one ability that students will always need and which will never outlive its usefulness is the ability to learn - to analyze and efficiently and effectively solve problems and to apply those solutions in life. This is as true in the "real" world as it is in a public educational environment, in which the vagaries of educational policy change often with the political wind.