Intro

1. 12 REASONS

2. Teachers Come to Technology
Specialists With These Kinds of
Problems.
Can you relate?

3. Their goals for improving their
instruction calls for use of technology;
yet they think the CD Rom holder is a
cup holder.

4. Their lessons provide more sleep time
than the students get at home.

5. They don’t have enough time to set
up, money to buy, or space to store
all the models they need.
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6. They want their class to improve
their FCAT scores.

7. Other teachers make them feel
“less than adequate” about their
presentations.

8. They need to present more
information than they can squeeze
on a blackboard.

9. Their computer takes their
attention away from the class.

10. Repeating themselves all day wears
them out.

11. They have so many windows open
for their presentations, their
computers crash.

12. The principal insists on teachers
using more technology in their
lessons

13. Overnight the firewall decides to
block the website they wanted to
use as the “hook” to their lesson.

14. After 5 perfect
presentations, administration pops
out of nowhere just as their
computer refuses to cooperate.