Barriers in Math Education Technology

 Modern education is requiring teachers to integrate technology at a level that is unprecedented in human history. As a result, teachers are presented with many barriers which inhibited them from effectively integrating the newest technology in the classroom.

Prior Learning Experience

One of the strongest barriers teachers have with integrating technology in the classroom is the teacher's own inability of seeing the usefulness of technology. Many modern educators did not have these technologies when they were learning, so many feel the technology is unnecessary to really understanding concepts (de Freitas, and Spangenberg, 2019).

Lack of Proper Training

With the above reason, another aspect of the barriers which modern education faces with properly integrating technology in the classroom is effective professional development (Kalonde, 2017). Because teachers are apprehensive of changing their pedagogical approaches to teaching, they need resources to inspire them to see the necessity of integrating technology in the classroom. 

Speed of Developing Technology

Another aspect of barriers of technological implementation in the classroom is an unavoidable reality of the evolution of technology. What was relevant last year is now completely obsolete. Compounding this with the genera; apathy educators have of changing their pedagogical approaches leads to a lack technological integration in the classroom.

Addressing the Problem

One thing educators can do to combat technological barriers to education is promote professional development. Also, in these sessions a fostering technological acceptance should be sought to inspire teachers to adjust their practices to ever developing technological landscape.

References

de Freitas, G., & Spangenberg, E. D. (2019). Mathematics teachers’ levels of technological pedagogical

     content knowledge and information and communication technology integration barriers. Pythagoras,

     40(1). https://doi.org/10.4102/pythagoras.v40i1.431

Kalonde, G. (2017). Technology Use in Rural Schools: A Study of a Rural High School Trying to Use

     iPads in the Classroom. The Rural Educator, 38(3), 27–38.

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