Educational Technology in Florida Schools

On PBS.org a survey was done with some Florida teachers about access to computers in the classrooms and 2/3 of the teachers stated that budgets were the biggest barriers to accessing technology in their classrooms. That low income communities still face an even greater need in technologies because they do not get much support from parents or the community, like their local school board. Teachers in the survey did believe that newer technology would help enrich classroom education. The top three reasons teachers gave to want to use more technology in the classroom is to increase student motivation, reinforcing and expanding on content being taught, and responding to a variety of learning styles. It sounds like teachers in Florida want to use technology for all the right reasons, but it is sad that they do not get the support for it. Here in Texas I don't think we have it that bad because there is always grants to get the newest technology and we get all kinds of support to get it. On another note I think PBS.org is a great resources for teachers and it has been a great resource for teachers since it was projected on TV in the classroom only that teachers back then would not take advantage or some administrators would not support it even though a lot of money was spent to have those dinosaur TV's installed in the classroom. In my classroom I still have one of those TV's mounted on the wall....I would like to navigate more of the site to see what I can access about history for my students....