The Curve in Tech Awareness

The amazing U of A Masters in T.L. grad, Tracy Poelzer, is the presenter at my school's Professional Development day today. Interestingly, most staff do not have a home page that their computer defaults to which contains RSS feeds. Most don't have a Yahoo or i-Google page. Well over 80% didn't seem to know what an RSS feed was. Is it any surprise that students are frustrated with a general lack of use of technology in our classrooms? Tracy is doing a great job, but as she says, this is an immense topic and we only have a short day to cover it.
The other observation is that Tracy is here in her new district position as Tech Coordinator. It's only a half time position. In this day and age, to have a half time tech coordinator to help teaching staff improve their use of technology in instruction explains where our district is at.