Education Rethink: 11 Reasons Teachers Aren't Using Technology #edchat #edtech - 51 views
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Louisa Guest on 15 Jul 12If any of these reasons resonate with you, please let's make time for a chat and work together to overcome them
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reading is viewed culturally as educational while all things techie tend to be viewed culturally as entertainment.
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If teachers themselves have never used these tools in their free time and schools haven't used these in professional development, the tools will always seem strange.
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Humility: It takes a certain level of humility to say, "my non-tech approach is wrong and maybe I need to consider technology."
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: I am not a fan compliance-driven leadership. However, in a culture of compliance, some teachers will only do what leaders mandate them to do. So, technology isn't required. Somehow, we treat it as if it's a matter of personal choice in a way that we would never do with pedagogy. Someone is still allowed to be a "good teacher" and use virtually no technology whatsoever. Failure isn't an option, but irrelevance is. Somehow we've screwed up our priorities. Somehow we've allowed teacher comfort level to drive what we use with students.