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Teachers’ Attitudes toward Implementing Technology

Teachers are not mandated to learn computer skills and many are not capable of implementing technology in their daily teaching. Why educators are not embracing technology is a matter of personal choice, but the typical chalk and blackboard classroom is changing rapidly. According to Market News (September, 1999) computers are increasingly found in the classroom with more than 90% of the nation’s schools reporting at least some computers in classrooms, and public schools expenditures in technology are expected to exceed $8.5 billion in the 2000-2001 school yea

With all this equipment in the classroom computers should be an integral part of the learning experience, but more than 60% of K-12 teachers are uncomfortable integrating technology into the classroom and lack of teacher training is cited as the key factor hindering the use of technology in classrooms. (Market News, 1999). The survey states that below 40% of the teachers felt comfortable with integrating technology. It also found a direct correlation between the amount of training with the amount of computer usage in the classroom. Computer usage increased significantly among the teachers with at least 20 hr. of training, 70.5% using their computers daily. Of these 50.5% felt “very well prepared” to integrate technology into the classroom.

The World Wide Web has become an integral part of the nation’s classroom, and according to Trotter & Zehr (1999), nearly eight of every 10 public schools in the nation had access to the Internet as of last year, more than double the proportion in 1994, according to a survey by the National Center for Education Statistics. The percentage of the nation's instructional rooms--classrooms, computer labs, and library or media centers--with connections to the global information network rose at an even faster rate, from 3 percent in 1994 to 27 percent in 1997, the survey released las...

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