Based on an analysis of patterns, they developed five profiles based on characteristics of the participating teachers. Three styles were shown to include almost all the participating teachers. According to research conducted by Russell, adults learning new technology pass through six stages on their way to becoming confident technology users. These learners may begin at any point and progress through at their own rates. Adopters must reinvent the innovation and make it their own if they are to continue using it.
Innovators are risk takers and are the first to adopt.
Resisters are active critics of new innovations and are the last to adopt. Leaders size up the situation but will move ahead swiftly when they determine that the time has come. Although the leaders are the key to growth of any adoption, they are not usually in the first wave of adopters. Assessing teachers' stages of adoption of technology allows the teacher educator to adapt the instruction to fit the learner's needs. Effect of technology integration education on the attitudes of teachers and their students .