Students & Technology: What's wrong?

Question: Why are students not actively involved with the technology that is already in schools?

Often times, as you may remember from high school days, there are technologies in classrooms that go unused by teachers as well as students. Why? Here is one scenario: Imagine being a high school teacher and your school has just provided you with a brand new machine to help your students learn. Being unaware of this piece of equipment, however, you let it sit in the corner. It becomes a table for extra papers rather than a tool to assist your students. Without knowledge of how to use a tool you may not use it. Your students also never use it.

Technologies change so quickly that it is difficult to keep up with them no matter how much you may be used to computers. If schools are going to provide the latest equipment for teachers, they ought to also provide instruction for how to use the equipment.