Institutional Issues
Educational institutions face a number of challenges regarding the control and maintenance of technology in the school.

Teacher Related Issues
Student Related Issues
Legal vs. Illegal Use

Student Related Issues

The “Digital Divide”:
Today’s K-12 schools compete in a global environment. Administrators know full well that parents are concerned with how well their child’s school stacks up against all other schools. By design the SAT system levels the playing field for the community and the country. In the last decade, technology based skill sets have had a definite affect on the SAT process. Students can now use graphing calculators when taking the SAT exam. Though not a PC, these calculators are a serious technology. As a microcosm of the community, schools recognize the fact that unless technology is made available in the school, the students will be at a disadvantage in the job market if they graduate. Unless a graduate has technical skills on balance with their education level, their employment opportunities will be limited.

Education Budgets:
School budgets are thin as it is and with the current budget deficit in California for example, they will only get worse. When an administrator is faced with the requirement to provide books, a safe campus, school lunches, intramural sports or computer technical staff, they naturally go to the basic requirements. From their perspective technology is expensive to buy and much more expensive to maintain.

Unequal Access:
Unfortunately, for kids who have limited or no PC skills (or access), and do not have the financial wherewithal to acquire a PC, school PC resources are targeted for vandalism as a way to even the score. “If I can’t have a PC, no one get a PC”.

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