Philip J. Brody, Ph.D. - Inadequate support infrastructure: Adversely impacting students

Philip J. Brody, Ph.D., has written an article concerning how inadequate support infrastructure is adversely impacting student performance

In March 2009, eSchool News published the results of a second annual survey and report, conducted together with CoSN and SchoolDude.com that focused on the unique challenges facing IT professionals in the K-12 environment. An area that particularly caught my attention was the availability, or should I say lack of availability, of technology staff and other support resources in our nation's K-12 schools. Much as the previous year's study, it showed that there were far too few staff to handle the growing amount of technology in our schools. It mattered little whether you looked at it from staying on top of repairing and maintenance of the equipment or looked at it from the perspective of enabling instructional staff to use the technology more appropriately and/or effectively in meeting the instructional needs of their students.

Regardless of how one examined the data, the outcome was the same: an unacceptably high percentage of our schools and districts do not possess an adequate technology support infrastructure (e.g., people, services, resources) to adequately sustain the expanding role of technology in our schools.

Read the full article at eSchool News

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