Managing the Use of School Term Paper

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They have included several charts and graphs describing their conclusions. They urge school administrators to not trivialize the importance of using technology, avoiding the traps and pitfalls and warning that it will not be easy to accomplish a full and perfect use of technology, but that the rewards are worth it.

The authors firmly believe that technology is beneficial to schools and that schools that do not use technological advances in computers and communications, such as e-mail and the Internet will fall behind. They have charts that show the use of technology by state and correlate that with how well the state is doing in the charts describing grade level and school size. They also do not encourage the use of technology so much as assume that it will eventually be universal and this article is a guide to using it successfully.


This is a useful article for administrators of schools and should be read by anyone who is planning to put technology to use for teachers and students in their school. It has good guides and outlines the pitfalls that will be encountered by those who do not pay attention to their warnings and guidelines. The abuse of the Internet in businesses was higher than I thought - While 60-75% of Internet use is business related, "Employees spend the rest of the time (25-40%) visiting dating services, news or sports Web pages, online shopping, playing games or chatting...." This is a legal liability and decreases productivity.

This was an enlightening article as far as what can be done with technology to benefit schools. But there are a lot of things to watch out for when installing and using technology there......

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