Learning to Change, Changing to Learn

We recently watched the video Learning to Change, Changing to Learn as part of our Leading (http://youtu.be/tahTKdEUAPk) with Instructional Technology course. In very broad terms, they were making reference to the fact that education in the United States has failed to keep up with the technology of our current world. As I was listening and nodding along in agreement, I was also thinking about so many factors at play in our current system that are obstacles on our road to technological advancement.  I say obstacles rather than barriers because I am optimistic that they are factors we can work around, but they are definitely slowing us down in the journey.

The primary factor that I feel is negatively impacting our ability to make adequate progress in our use of instructional technology is a lack of resources; particularly time for professional development and money for hardware.