Author Says Technology BringsFalse Promises to Schools

The article interviews Todd Oppenheimer who wrote "The Flickering Mind; The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved." He maintains that schools have adopted the premise; the more the better, the sooner the better based on technology in the classroom. He believes that technology drains resources from other subjects and prevents students from deveolping critical and creative thinking skills. He thinks computers should be supplemental and shifts thinking from quality to quantity. Technology should focus on how to computers operate and students should use computers to compute.
The author stated that computers should be used primarily for older students which I was totally in agreement with. He, also, noted that computers will be used in poor schools where teachers are undertrained and overwhelmed and wealthy schools will use teachers to teach!