The use of technology in the classroom is one of the requirements when we make our lesson plans and also on our state evaluation. With this as one of the strands of NC Teachers’ evaluation one can believe or assume that every single classroom in every school is equipped with technology. However, this is not the case, especially in my school.

We do not have enough computers in the school. We only have five computer labs that has more or less 22 computers working, sometimes 20, that caters to all 500+ students.  We have to reserve the lab before any other teacher can to make sure that we can use the lab on the day that we need it. We have two roving carts for mobile computers that may or may not work that is why I do not use them anymore. Luckily we were granted thirty (30) chrome books from Title 1 money and we have to share this to the whole school too. We were also given 20 iPod touch by NC State in support of the STEM Program. All of these gadgets and equipments have helped us use technology in the classroom, which may or may not have a projector.

Inasmuch as we would like to use technology in the classroom every single day, we cannot due to these limitations. We hope that we can get more support in the coming years, especially for some scientific equipments that we can use in our experiments.

Thus the question “To Tech or Not To Tech?”

Well, I have to get in line.