Enthusiastic amateurs Enthusiastic amateurs are great if used properly. However, there is often unfair and excessive reliance on them. Unfortunately most of their time is spent reinventing wheels of various shapes and of varying degrees of effectiveness. Usually they waste their time learning to become technicians or programmers, rather than learning how to use technicians and programmers. Along with all of humanity, educationalists are conservative by nature.
Technology is a concept which suggests change.
Indeed, if it is to be applied effectively, it requires quite fundamental change. This is not a pleasant thought for those who prefer the comfort of doing things the way they have always done them, and the way their parents and grandparents before them did them. Educational conservatives are a species which can be recognised in a number of ways. Let me mention one. When traditional learning methods fail, they blame the teacher or the student.