10 Barriers to Technology Adoption

As I visit schools and have the opportunity to talk to teachers about strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to technology adoption, it is surprising how common the issues are across school types and locations.  This article clearly articulates many of these....just in case you need further proof.

It takes vision, leadership, time, planning, money, curriculum and assessment in varying amounts and orders.

The 10 Barriers to Technology Adoption

Technology will absolutely change K12 learning.

By:

Cathleen Norris and Elliot Soloway

District Administration, Nov/Dec 2011

Computing technologies have profoundly transformed just about every major organization and field of human endeavor. To take just two examples, Apple is the largest distributor of music in the world, and manufacturing and surgery are the province of robots, not humans.
But K12 still relies on textbooks and pencil pouches. Why have computing technologies failed to transform K12? Here are our 10 barriers to technology adoption.

Read the 10 barriers and the rest of the article at:
http://www.districtadministration.com/article/10-barriers-technology-adoption