BARRIERS OF IMPLEMENTING TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION Introduction Over the past fifty years or so , teachers and parents have read and heard forecasts of an impending educational revolution each time a new technological innovation arrived on the scene . Fifty years ago , radio broadcasting was suppose to revolutionize education . Soon thereafter ,teaching machines were predicted to bring sweeping changes . Next ,television was touted as the medium that would solve problems facing education . Now , the computer is being hailed as the next technological innovation to have a major impact on the educational process .Modern education , in fact , has sustained a long-term interest in the use of educational technology as a means to design more efficient learning opportunities for students . There are tools on how to use the new electronic technologies and this includes : skills software computer graphics word processors telecommunications simulations multimedia /hypermedia virtual reality and distributed learning .In a field with such a wide range of powerful and complex tools , experts cannot help but disagree about what teachers need to know and even where they should begin . Not long ago , many experts advised teachers who wanted to become capable computer users learn to write computer programs in languages such as FORTRAN and BASIC . To become computer literate ,many assumed that teachers needed to know enough about the technical workings of computers to follow .Few people today believe that teachers need this much technical skill ,but textbooks still provide wide varieties of information for beginning technology users . The following steps are needed to take by the beginning technology users :Develop a philosophy . Teachers must observe where current resources and types of applications fit in the history of the field . Then they must begin developing personal perspectives on the current and future role of technology in education and in their own classrooms .Purchase products . Teachers must become informed , knowledgeable consumers of computer products and select wisely among available alternatives .Identify the problems . Teachers must be able to troubleshoot computer systems they use frequently in order to discriminate between problems they can correct and those that will require outside help .Speak the language . Sufficient understanding of the terms and concepts related to technology allows users to exchange information with other teachers and experts and to ask and answer questions to expand their knowledge .See where technology fits in education . In perhaps the most important- and the most difficult- challenge , teachers must identify specific school activities where technology can help to improve existing conditions or to create important educational opportunities that did not exist without it . As part of this process , teachers decide what they need to make these changes occur . This process of determining where and how technology fits is known among users of educational technology as integration . Successful integration requires a connection between how people learn and how teachers employ technology to assist and enhance this learning .DISCUSSION Computer networks offer a significant opportunity for improving the educational climate , especially in situation calling for teaching at a distance in settings which are either primarily…