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Being an educator that primarily teaches about technology I find it interesting that some schools and teachers are not using the tools that are available to them.  I recently went shopping at the IKEA store and picked up some furniture for my daughters. If you have bought any furniture there you know that you have to assemble everything when you get home.  They key tool to assemble almost all of their furniture is the Allen wrench. I compare not using technology in the classroom to be like not having an Allen wrench to put together the IKEA furniture. It would be almost impossible to complete the project. Unfortunately, I realize that it is not just teacher refusal that becomes a factor that influences technology use in classroom.  If it was just that I think we could show enough evidence to help a teacher understand its importance. The journal of Technology of Education did a study in 2007 that cited some specific reasons why technology adaptation was not happen...