Discussion 4

I thought the paragraph that introduced the barriers to integrating technology was very interesting in this article. Personally, I think it would have been easy enough to figure out that resources would be the number one barrier to integrating technology into the classroom. In what limited experience I have, I have noticed that those schools with the most resources do offer the most technological opportunities for their students. Although I think that part of the problem with these barriers goes back to an earlier paragraph within this article that could not provide a definite definition of what constitutes integrating technology into the classroom. If there was a more concrete definition, then I also think that it would be easier to pinpoint the barriers to using technology. One problem I do have with this paragraph is what it considers as the only resources. What I mean is that during this discussion of resources, the authors didn't mention funding as a resource. I would almost place this as the top resource, because without it, nothing else can occur.