Synching up with the iKid

"A recent survey by CDW Corporation shows that teachers are more likely to use technology to ease the administrative requirements of K-12 education than to utilize it in instructional applications. More than 85 percent of respondents in CDW's Teachers Talk Tech survey say that while they are adequately trained on Internet, word processing, and email software, 27 percent have little or no training with integrating computers into lessons." This is one of the main problems that I recall as a student in school. The teachers used the classroom computers just to enter grades and e-mail. Part of this problem is that classrooms only have one computer and there is so much confidential information on that one computer that it could be a risk to let students work on it. As a student teacher I worried about this problem frequently, but still tried to allow time for students to utilize the in class computer. Also, I was intimidated to incorporate technology, because my knowledge of what was out there and what was possible is quite limited.