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Barriers to Integration

Schools may face many barriers to the effective integration of technology. Fortunately, whether these barriers are physical, such as lack of hardware and software, or less tangible, such as attitudes and perceptions, many schools and districts have already faced some of these problems, and their experiences can suggest strategies for overcoming these barriers.

The rest of this lesson will focus on the following barriers to integration and strategies that some schools and districts have used to address them.

  • Purpose
  • Lack of professional development
  • Support problems
  • Problems related to time
  • Funding issues