Communications Technology is part of the High School Broad-Based Technologies curriculum in Ontario. Communications is the accurate transfer of information from a sender to a receiver. Technological education is identified by the Common Curriculum, as one of the ten cross-curricular learning outcomes. Technological education consists of teaching students to use computers and other electronic equipment as well as the study of the particular use of ideas, materials and energy to create products, processes and systems to improve society as well as analysis and assessment of the impact of these products, processes and systems on society and the environment.