Four Barriers Post

 

  My first thought as to thinking of four barriers that make infusion of technology a barrier in my particular classroom would be time. My class setting is different from most teachers because I teach various children from all elementary grade levels and only see some children for 45 minutes in an entire day, and some of those may only come to my class 2 times per week. My first priority in teaching my particular students is achieving their Sped IEP goals. 

   My second thought as to a barrier in using technology is that I have students of different ability levels in my classroom at one time and may not only be working on different ELA concepts but possibly even Math at the same time that another student is working on an ELA subject.

   A third barrier for using technology in my classroom is the varying technology abilities of my students, due to their diagnosed learning disabilities. I have some students who can't write their own name correctly from day to day, for example,  and we are constantly having to suddenly drop what we are working and going back and work on a basic skill that the student was able to do just the day before. 

   The fourth barrier I can think of in using technology would be the behavior barriers that many of my Sped students have that are often tied to their learning disability. I teach students that will become frustrated very easily and aggressively to the point of damaging technical equipment in acting out the frustrations.