Practice:Theory that providing laptops for teachers will help improve student achievement and teaching practice

'Would providing laptops for teachers improve student achievement and teaching practice''' The Laptops for teachers scheme (TELA) was an initiative of the New Zealand Government and the Ministry of Education to give all Year 9 - 13 teachers access to laptops The scheme was to reflect the governments commitment to increase the use of ICT in schools to help improve student achievement and teaching practice the objective of the scheme is to encourage teachers to develop greater confidence and competence in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), so that they increase their use of ICT for teaching and learning, class management and administration I believe that the Ministry of Education and the government thought that exposing the teachers to this hardware would automatically make them computer and ICT literate which would carry over into the classroom but as Straub (2008) said when looking how people adopt new technology. They need time to accept the new innovation and to go through a number of stages from acceptance of new technology and that it is better