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__**Conditions for Classroom Technology Innovations**__ > **__Teaching, Learning & Technology__**
 * Budget: An average of $6000 from a grant
 * Teacher Training: Teacher that had a broader knowledge of technology had more success in implementation; teachers who had limited knowledge and experience were more reluctant and hindered the implementation of their projects
 * Class Time: Technology integrated throughout all class subjects
 * A study done through a grant and with teachers from various backgrounds implementing technology based curriculum--wanted to find out the successes and failures for technology implemented in the classroom
 * Factors that affected implementation of technology in the classroom:
 * Teacher Expertise--Teachers that were flexible in trying new ideas and were reflective of their practice (in technology and their own teaching practice) had more success than teachers that did not.
 * Technology Resources--Teachers that heavily relied on others' expertise, resources (media specialist, software, etc.) usually experienced frustration and often did not fully integrate the technology within the curriculum.
 * School Climate--Student equity, unsupportive teaching partners, and overbearing administrators limited and/or discouraged teachers from fully integrating or continuing the technology curriculum.
 * Technology advances in education.
 * Intergrating the use of technology in the classroom and how well students respond to it.
 * Students became for confident, able to work in groups, independent workers, self-starters, and were optimistic out-look for the future.
 * A "constructive" classroom opposed to a traditional one is created.
 * Characteristics of a successful inquiry based classroom fused with technology.
 * Advantages of using technology to promote learning (technlogy becomes a catalyst for learning)
 * Students interpret the information and make meaning of the information gathered
 * Technology is always a work in progress
 * Teacher training was in a "real classroom" (mulitdisciplinary) with students
 * Teachers became for comfortable with technology, enjoyed their work, and transformed into facilitator rather than "traditional teacher"