Webinar on Education Technology

Education Week – Teachers Perspectives on Education Technology

This webinar discussed the results of a survey on EdTech conducted on the Education Week website. According the presenter, it represented diverse community of teachers, but does not statistically reflect the teachers across the United States. The data states that many teachers do not have a positive outlook on the current state of Education Technology, however, the outlook on the future looks slightly better for teachers.

It seems that these issues have to do mainly with the fact that, even though every single stakeholder in education understands that Education Technology must play a part in student education, not everyone understand how it should play out and where resources should be spent when technology changes so quickly. I seems that companies of hardware and software are in a winning position financially, while schools are in a losing position. If the next phase of our existence contains an augmented reality.

I am deeply concerned that a large majority of children and their parent may be left out when access to the technology necessary to participate in the augmented, asynchronous reality is not available. I look forward to governments and companies find ways to solve this issue and increase funding and professional development for teachers everywhere who might be intimidated by education technology.