Access? More Like Lack Of

I'm working in a grade one class right now and the students have little access to technology. There is one computer in the class which I have yet to see a student touch.

The kids do have access to the 18 computers found in the school library (there are 25 students in the class) once a week for forty minutes - barely enough time to complete anything meaningful. I don't want to sound negative but the reality is that I have not yet seen any exemplary lessons involving the computer lab, as a matter of fact I have barely seen ANY lessons using the computers. I'm guessing this would not be the case if teachers had more opportunity to expose their students to the technology.

There is one SMART Board in our school which is connected to the grade six class; the board is available for use by other teachers during specific periods each day but it never leaves the classroom in which it is housed. I think the fact that the board is linked to a particular teacher and because the availability of it is so limited, teachers are afraid to play with it; if their lesson runs long or they want to return to it later in the day it is not that simple.

I hope to integrate technology into the grade one class while teaching during my next block. The teacher is open to learning new things and I'm hoping that by exposing her to some lessons using technology she might be more open to trying something similar in the future.