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My mother is coordinator of edtech at a small catholic middle and elementary school that fully invested in iPad education when it first released. It works as we

My mother is coordinator of edtech at a small catholic middle and elementary school that fully invested in iPad education when it first released. It works as well as the commenters in this thread can tell you. The one thing you missed is that plenty of teachers won't spend the 15 minutes. The first time an edtech feature doesn't work in their classroom - usually because the teacher is using it completely incompetently - they just stop using it altogether. It took the school almost a semester just to get an english teacher to stop making the students use paper notebooks because she resented the tech so badly. And you can see where the resentment comes from - lots of teachers do NOT tend towards technical literacy. A lot of them are older and underpaid, and they aren't going home and plugging away familiarizing themselves with contemporary tech to "skill up." The reason "kids can't use computers" is no doubt because plenty of their teachers can't either.

CaptSpify 10y ago
To be fair, most classroom software that I've seen is terrible. Couldn't her hesitation to learning tech be more because we've spent a long time giving them bad tech, so she stopped trying?
- mustacheemperor 10y ago
  You're assuming their technical illiteracy is limited to software. My mother routinely must explain to teachers over and over that files saved to "their desktop" are accessible from any computer on the AD, or that Google Drive is different from email.
  - CaptSpify 10y ago
    I'm well aware that there are plenty of teachers who flat out suck at technology, software, hardware, or any layer in between. But it's not binary, more of a spectrum. I'm just offering up a possible reason that someone wouldn't want to learn. I strongly believe that most of the current "hate on learning new computer systems" is due to programmers and designers more than cranky users

CaptSpify 10y ago

To be fair, most classroom software that I've seen is terrible. Couldn't her hesitation to learning tech be more because we've spent a long time giving them bad tech, so she stopped trying?

mustacheemperor 10y ago
You're assuming their technical illiteracy is limited to software. My mother routinely must explain to teachers over and over that files saved to "their desktop" are accessible from any computer on the AD, or that Google Drive is different from email.
- CaptSpify 10y ago
  I'm well aware that there are plenty of teachers who flat out suck at technology, software, hardware, or any layer in between. But it's not binary, more of a spectrum. I'm just offering up a possible reason that someone wouldn't want to learn. I strongly believe that most of the current "hate on learning new computer systems" is due to programmers and designers more than cranky users