Have Tech, Will Avoid - Brief Article

More and more schools are coming on-line, but are educators still out of the loop? A 1999 survey of more than 1,500 elementary- and secondary-school teachers found that only 39 percent of the respondents felt "well prepared" to use technology for teaching. Furthermore, according to Market Data Retrieval (the education market research company that conducted the study) 61 percent felt either "not at all prepared" or "somewhat prepared" to integrate tech into their instruction. Perhaps not surprisingly, more than half of the respondents, or 51 percent, rated their schools as "fair" or "poor" in technology training and support.

Brian Hanson-Harding is a writer and a teacher of English at Northern Valley Regional High School, in Old Tappan, NJ.

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