This material is based upon work supported by the following national science foundation under standards for technological literacy content for the study of technology referred to henceforth as technology content standards presents a vision of what students should know and be able to do in order to be technologically literate. Standards for technological literacy content for the study of technology stl identifies content necessary for k 12 students including knowledge abilities and the capacity to apply both to the real world the standards in stl were built around a cognitive base as well as a doing activity base. Thankfully in standards for technological literacy content for the study of technology standards for technological literacy stl we have a tool to help us address the mismatch between dependency and understanding through an arduous four year process involving many levels of review and count less revisions the international technology education. The standards for technological literacy intro content for the study of technology technology content standards has been funded by the national aeronautics and space administration nasa and the national science foundation nsf the minnesota technology education association has endorsed the standards