Technology and Teachers

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This paper explains that students must have the vital technological input in order to develop useful productivity, but teachers are not prepared to use this technology. The paper then suggests ways that teachers can meet the challenge of technology in the classroom. The paper also discusses the reasons why society demands that the use of technology is integrated into the public school system.

From the Paper:

"There is only a small fraction of teachers that can connect with these diverse students. That kind of connection can only come through formal training, but unfortunately most often it comes from "On-the-job training". Consequently it is the student that unknowingly suffers from the reluctance or inability to integrate the use of technology into the classroom. As tech leader in our school, I have witnessed time and again the lack of understanding of technology in our educators."

Sample of Sources Used:

• NCRTEC, (2005)Technology Challenges During Teachers' Induction Years Part 7: Teacher Unprepared, School Unprepared North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium. Part 7 retrieved Nov 18th 2006, from http://www.ncrtec.org/pd/cee/part7.htm .
• White-Clark, R (2005) Training Teachers to Succeed in a Multicultural Classroom-from Principal. The Education Digest,70, 23-26, April 2005 Vol. 70, No. 8
• Slowinski, J.(2000) ED438593 2000-01-00 Digest Number 135,Education Resource Information Center, Becoming a Technologically Savvy Administrator, Retrieved Nov 19, 2006 http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/2a/30/1b.pdf
• Darling-Hammond, (1990). As cited in: Mereseth, K. (1992). Firstaid for first-year teachers. Phi Delta Kappan, 73(9), 678-683.
• Gardner, S.(2005) Producing Well-Prepared Teachers, from the Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education. February 2006 edition of The Education Digest. Vol. 71, No.6 pgs 42-46.

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