With all great things, comes great challenges. Finding ways to implement technology is easy, but finding ways to implement that take learning and understanding to a deeper level is a challenge. A challenge that not all instructors are ready for or receptive to. Monitoring students on devices is one of the opportunities that presents itself and the responsibility of the teacher to keep students on task in the digital world is just one deterrent. Also a struggle for the digital component of blended learning is the ability of students to work digitally at home. If homework is offered in our district it has to be a paper/pencil option, even if students have access at home. This limits the assignments that could push the blended model deeper for most students. It also further limits the ability to individualize instructions. Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools suggests that "No matter how much of a breakthrough a particular technology is, when it arrives in the context of the existing system, the exiting system starts to shape the technology to conform to its dimensions (pg. 127)."
For teachers that have been teaching for years, it's hard to imagine introducing technology when their current methods are putting out desired test results. Students working individually with technology may not be focused on the digital lesson that has been provided to them by the teacher. This is one area that the teacher must let go, and give students' autonomy in their learning. Training students and teachers in their new jobs as learners and teachers is a step that must not be skipped if the integration of technology is going to be successful. There are several resources to make blending successful in the classroom, and eventually, the students will blend easily, with no distractions and with an added sense of success.