Coordination and Cooperation. In the absence of any commonly understood vision or strategic plan for the use of technology in education, most groups and individuals with an interest in this issue have been proceeding more or less independently. This lack of cooperation and coordination can significantly impede progress and lead to enormous waste in time and money. For example, the setting of standards for telecommunication technologies is literally impossible without cooperation among a wide variety of entities. Eliminate Some of the Resistance to Change and to Technology.
Education is also a product of tradition.
This resistance seems to intensify when the issue is technology in schools. A Sufficient Funding Base. Educational funding is already inadequate in Illinois and does not allow major, new initiatives such as the appropriate and effective implementation of technology in the schools. Because the state's funding system has inherent inequities, the lack of resources for new initiatives is more acute in some districts than in others. This lack of resources can widen the disparity of opportunity that already exists in the public schools.