Four Barriers Post

For your first blog entry, what do you feel are the four top barriers you face that make the infusion of technology more difficult?

The first barrier I feel that I face in using technology in the classroom, is having enough devices for the students to be able to work on their own. The students each want to be able to create the digital product. When I have a lesson when the students are using technology in their learning, they each want to be able to "use " the  device, even when they are working in groups. I like to be able to have the students work together but each have their own ipad/netbook so each student feels a sense of ownership in what they are doing.

The second barrier in using technology in the classroom is that it is ever changing. It seems that as soon as one website or app is used and the students become "experts" at it the site/app is no longer as good as the new one that has come out. The students can become frustrated because the site is not as fast or new as what has just come out. 

The third barrier would be time. As a teacher we have deadlines to meet during the day. It can be difficult to come up with enough time to become educated on using a new site or app. It can be frustrating when the sites do no work the way they did when, say you worked with the web site at home, and then you get to school to use with your class and it does not perform,the way it did when you last used it.

The fourth barrier I would say for me is having enough time to allow the students to fully explore the technology they are using. It can be not having enough time to create the digital product, or just finishing a word document the students are working on.