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=What barriers or constraints are keeping this from happening in your district, school, organization?=


 * Genuine barrier is testing, NCLB schools that are not meeting the minimum test scores. There is a perception that technology that is an extra that will not help get there.
 * Limited amount of technology hardware.
 * Time is a huge one coupled with the notion that maybe if I wait it out long enough it will go away.
 * There seems to be no pressure to make the teams that have not progressed in tech use to do anything.
 * Grading gets in the way- no easy way to assess this stuff.
 * People in top admin believe that we are using technology when we really aren't- illusion.
 * We don't know what we don't know.
 * Teachers' fear of letting go of control.
 * Traditionalism
 * Teachers' perception that they know what is best for kids.
 * Pursue your passion
 * Lack of vision, need a collaborative atmosphere - involvement from all
 * Misunderstanding that you need to know it all before you can do it.
 * The people that look like that they are doing it have mastered it and that others can't get there.
 * Infrastructure- money.
 * In order to implement what we want we need to have internet that is not blocked. Need to change policy about what is blocked.
 * Need guidelines about what to do with blogs and wikis when the students are no longer in the class.
 * People are scared.
 * Lack of encouragement to take risks.
 * Being a school on the needs improvement list
 * Need to get off the list
 * Data driven
 * Technology is not as important as other things
 * Infrastructure- money
 * Old school- wireless does not work through stone
 * Time
 * No life because i spend time doing this
 * Learning curve
 * Hoping it will go away
 * Lack of leadership that says this is the direction that we are going
 * Fear and isolation
 * Power struggle - administrators not wanting to give power to teachers
 * Teachers not giving power to kids
 * Teachers not giving power to other teachers
 * Lack of ability to say I don't know something
 * Lack of ability to learn from each other
 * Need to understand that technology is not separate from other things you do
 * Parents and teachers saying if it ain't broke don't fix it
 * Pressure of AP exams, college entrance rates, grades
 * Status quo
 * Data
 * Data killing creativity
 * Not enough critical mass
 * Deep time needed for buy in
 * College admission, losing control, consequence of students not getting into the college they can
 * Feeling that teachers must, versus choice
 * Social economic problem of money
 * Equity of resources
 * Fear of change itself
 * Scripted curriculum- every six weeks teach the curriculum and test
 * Teaching methods and resources do not match the methods and resources allowed to be used in assessment
 * Disconnect between what we feel the kids should learn and what they are tested on
 * Need to revise the curriculum