{"id":59,"date":"2006-11-30T08:01:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T13:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2008-07-23T13:04:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T18:04:01","slug":"why-are-teachers-not-integrating-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Why are teachers not integrating technology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was having a discussion over lunch the other day with a colleague of mind <a href=\"http:\/\/beetlebecky.edublogs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Becky<\/a>.  She is a life long learner and making the move into education, specifically instructional\/information technology.  We were reflecting on the recent comments from some of the blogs we read and a new one I have recently come across, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edsupport.cc\/mguhlin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miguel Guhlin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The question was what is holding teachers back from integrating technology and using these tools in their teaching?  We came up with a long list; here are a few that seemed to sum it up for us.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">Not enough time to &#8216;play&#8217; with and learn the new tools.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">Not enough time to make a fluid natural use of the tools, therefore they are not part of an authentic learning experience but a contrived one. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">There are not enough computers around for easy access.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">Teachers need the time to experiment, for a little trial and error. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">They need to know it is okay to try some thing new.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">It is okay to make a mistake.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">Teachers need to be freed from the pressure to keep up with the often over stuff scope and sequence. (Maybe add a little time in the planning to allow for a little creativity and experimentation, doing something the first time always takes more time.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">They need encouragement, support and some good modeling.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">They need to know the value of these tools.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">They also need to be valued.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\"> I can hear my mother saying all you do is &#8220;complain, complain, complain, so what are you going to do about it?&#8221;  Well what are we going to do about it?  I am open to suggestions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having a discussion over lunch the other day with a colleague of mind Becky. She is a life long learner and making the move into education, specifically instructional\/information technology. We were reflecting on the recent comments from some of the blogs we read and a new one I have recently come across, by Miguel Guhlin. The question was what is holding teachers back from integrating technology and using these tools in their teaching? We came up with a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=59\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}