Laura Atkinson
Pat Sadowy
Karen Smith
Stan Straw
University of Manitoba
| WITHOUT TECHNOLOGY: | TEACHER COMMENTS: |
| Teachers retain ownership of their materials. | "I'm not giving away my information to online education. They won't need me anymore once they have my stuff." |
| Teachers maintain better class control. | "How can I be a media mentor when the students interact more with the machine than me?" |
| Teachers avoid legal action. | "Who knows what students are looking at on the Web? Filters just don't work." |
| Students do not take on the bad habits of their teachers | "I look like a fool." (Teachers have fears and problems with technology that could be transferred to students.) |
| Students do not waste time on things they already know. | "Students know how to use technology anyway. Why bother teaching it?" |
| Students appreciate literature through the intended genre. | "Shakespeare didn't use a laptop." |
| Students "get to the meat" of learning | "Technology just gets in the way of my teaching." |
| Students perform well on their exams. | "I'm being evaluated on how well my students perform on English exams and the integration of technology is not part of that testing" |
| The workplace is less stressful. | "I was eager to use technology but the system just wasn't set up to handle it successfully . . . so I gave up trying." |