Information Technology Reference
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Table 6.6
other factors that hinder embedding digital tools and resources in practice
Factor
How it is demonstrated
Staff issues
· staff attitudes: age of staff, people's preparedness to change
· availability of the skills needed to maximize the impact of the tools
· lack of time for teachers to become pedagogically confident
· lack of CPD: lack of support post implementation
· teacher pedagogic style: sometimes teachers resist the locus
of power transferring from teachers to learners. Some
teachers find it difficult to understand that learners can
discover knowledge for themselves as well as 'infecting' other
learners with enthusiasm
· security e.g. the more mobile, the more likely it is to be stolen
· interoperability
· reliability - increased workload and duplication of effort because the
technology cannot be trusted to work 100% of the time
· ability to download is not always available for free products -
because of filters
· potential for subversion of the system e.g. learners swapping swipe
cards around
· lack of teaching experience of those who write software
· compatibility of resources between schools/colleges, home and
universities
Technical issues
including reliability
· ethics, for example, issues over biometric data and security, the
terms under which it is stored, civil liberties issues, future use of data
issues: e.g. fingerprint identification
· the lack of culture of use of technologies for internal
communications
· accountability - loss of evidence trail and concerns over security
and privacy: ensuring all parents have given permission for pupils to
be photographed and videoed. If there is one child in the classroom
whose parents have not given permission then this restricts what
technology can be used and how.
· health and safety
· software management
· teachers need to have appropriate hardware and software and be
used to using it for example, electronic reporting requires this
· lack of joined-up thinking in schools/colleges in different
communities
· absence of professional culture of sharing
· cyber bullying
· cost
· being risk averse
School/college
management issues
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