9-“How teachers are using technology at home and in their classrooms”

The article “How teachers are using technology at home and in their classrooms” highlights the differences among wealthier and poorer school districts and younger and older generation teachers. Generally, teachers 35 and younger are more confident in their technology skills and their ability to use technology in their classroom in opposition to teachers 55 and older. Younger teachers are more often to draw on colleagues for ideas of how to use different technologies in opposition to older teachers 35 and older. Teachers who work in wealthier school districts says their school does a good job providing them with the technologies and support  they need to incorporate digital tools in the classroom, most received formal training for this, and over half say they (or their students) use tablets in the learning process. Over half the percent of teachers in higher income school districts say they or their students use e-readers and use their cell phone to look up information in class. Out of the teachers who teach in low income school districts, just less than 40 percent say their school is behind the curve when it comes to using digital tools in the learning process, over half the percent of teachers say that a lack of resources among students to access digital technologies is a “major challenge” to incorporating more digital tools into their teaching, and half the percent of teachers say their school’s use of internet filters has a major impact on their teaching.

All this information gathered from the survey supports why there needs to be seminars for all teachers to learn about the latest technology, how to use it and incorporate it into their classroom. Teachers need to see that it can be very easy to learn once they are to work with the digital tool hands on. Schools within lower income school districts can not be deprived of these technologies. Students of lower SES need to have the same opportunities as the students in the higher SES school districts.