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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

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ide individual action research studies that can be compared or repeated. The objective of the present study is to determine how teacher training can change teachers’ attitude towards implementing technology in their daily instruction. It is hypothesized that teachers will have significantly more favorably attitudes towards implementing technology if they are trained than teachers that are not trained. L. T. A. R. P. The research clearly states the reasons for the choosing this particular topic. In my school there are many laptop classes as well as computers in the classrooms. As a school, we are trying to really implement technology into the daily instruction in order to expose our students to alternative methods of learning. Computers are a huge part of our budget and this expenditure needs to be justified. The school culture can be defined as a school where the administration is trying to implement technology across the curriculum and have technology be one of the main parts of the educational process. The principal wants as many laptop classes as possible but he also wants the rest of the students to receive some form of computer instruction and the use of technology. There are two labs fully networked and connected to
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