Resistance to use of technology

1. Resistance to the use of
educational technology

2.  teachers
showed a lot of resistance as far as
online learning was concerned
 Teachers
will continue to resist

3.  Resistance:
an opposing or retarding force
 to technology
 1. What are the factors that contribute to
faculty resistance to technology in our
technologically advanced time?
 How can faculty, as adult learners, be
prepared to understand technology and learn
about its use in instruction?

4. The causes and the factors of faculty resistance
to the use of technology in their work are
varied
 “the old timers who like things as they are”)
lack of awareness
 Lack of interest
 Lack of equipments
 Lack of funding
 Threatened by technology


5.  Lack
of technical expertise
 Absence of professional development and
support

6.  Lack
of interest in being techno savvy
 Inability of being techno savvy
 Lack of aptittude

7.  Shortage
of fund leading to insufficient
number of equpment

8.  resistance
to change their current ways of
teaching and adapting to the use of
technology in class
 Faculty feel threatened that their place will
be taken by technology

9.  Copy
right laws , fair use policies privacy
rights and intellectual property rights and
problem with hackers and viruses

10. 
resource person do not have the skills to do
what the leader is proposing

11.  Suspicion
ambiguity and lack of faith due
lack of proper training
 Resistance due to disagreement with
expectations and efforts to learn about new
technology leading to anxiety and fear
 Teachers refuse to let go of the old