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Please rate how you feel about the following statements involving technology and its relation to education?
1. The more technology we can work into our classrooms and curriculum the better.
2. I am always open to new technology that has the potential to teach my students in a different fashion than I do currently.
3. Administration has become too willing to adopt the newest technology without consideration to the increased burden of preparation on teachers.
My guess is that there would be a direct correlation between the number of years teaching and and a negative outlook on technology.
Optimally administration would seek to blend new technology into existing classrooms as seamlessly as possible. Teachers should be shown the benefits of the new technology and trained, not just shown once, on how to use it to their advantage.
In addition administrators should weigh the increase in prep time for teachers against the benefits for students. I believe teachers that have seen too many new programs/technology come, fail, and go become cynical and reluctant to embrace any new developments. Therefore, each new item of software or hardware should be evaluated for ease of use as well as quantifiable results.
I like how you put so nicely that more seasoned teachers, in general, may be less apt to try using new in technology their classroom. I feel like this is the greatest problem in my building and throughout my school district. Being an advocate for new technology in the classroom often means that I give up my planning time to help teachers who don't understand the new tools that we have available. Most of the time their is opposition from the teachers who see technology as cutting into the activities that they have becom most comfprtable teaching!
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