Why Educators Won't Dip Their Toes into the Tech Pool...and How to get them to Jump in
After talking with a colleague recently at lunch and looking through my Twitter feed for the last six months or so, I started to wonder why more teachers don't supplement their daily lessons with technology. I have found and implemented a number of new resources to help my students, and I'm surprised that more teachers haven't joined me yet. Throughout our conversation and during my 45 minutes on the treadmill that afternoon I came up with a few reasons why teachers stray away from the integration of technology and possible solutions to get our colleagues on board with technology. 1. Teacher Apathy I despise the thought that this is a viable reason for avoiding technology, but let's face it, some educators have been in the profession for that magic number of years that makes them believe that they have found the perfect way of educating each student. Their perfect way happens to be lecturing for 40 minutes each day, but that's neither here nor there....