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Education
Recent studies have shown that in Wilmington, Delaware teachers are acclimating to the new technology in their classrooms at a slower pace.

Larry Cuban an English professor at Stanford University was stated as saying "The introduction of computers into school was supposed to improve academic achievement, and alter how teachers taught. Neither has occurred." Teachers aren't adapting to this new wave of technology, mainly because they aren't given time to acclimate to the new technology, therefore they show a hesitance to use it in their classrooms.

Research done by the Economic and Social Research Council shows that teachers fear many of the new technologies implemented in the class room interferes with genuine learning particularly in humanities and creative subjects.

Many of the technologies in the classroom take away the need of teachers in the classroom. In a MindShift article Aran Levasseur wrote that "All computing devices — from laptops to tablets to smartphones — are dismantling knowledge silos and are therefore transforming the role of a teacher into something that is more of a facilitator and coach." With this recent technological shift happening in the education realm, many teachers fear that they are losing their classroom. Everything that is on the lesson plan each week for them to teach is readily available on the internet for their students to access, so the job of the teachers these days is basically just to monitor the progress of their students, or merely just to maintain an order and structure in the classroom.

Many Superintendents across America are looking for ways to acclimate teachers to this new and changing technology. Jennifer Carey provided some potential solutions in her article How to Get Hesitant Teachers to Use Technology. Her first solution is to not try and change the way a teacher teaches especially a veteran teacher. Carey offers her solution to helping veteran teachers when she states "observe what they do in the classroom that’s made them successful and build out from there." Offer suggestions on how to make their good teaching practices more efficient or effective, using tools that clearly make tasks easier to accomplish." She provides examples of some services that could be more beneficial to teachers this day in age like Dropbox, Google Drive, and Google Earth. Another very important tip she gives is to give the teachers time to get familiar with the new technology. She says in the article that "If you are rolling out new iPads or Netbooks, hand them out at the end of the year, just before summer. Let your faculty have the summer to play with the new tool, get comfortable with it, learn how to use it. Letting teachers edge up to a new hardware tool at home will remove the intimidation of performing under a watchful eye, and also allow them to get acquainted at their own pace."

In the New Media Reader Theodor H. Nelson wrote in his article No More teachers' dirty looks that people are opposed to the computer because they believe it is thought to be "cold",and "inhuman" but a human can be just as inhuman and maybe even more so than the actual machine itself.