RE: Question 1: Technology in Education

Certainly, technology is a tool in most classes where it is used.  But "teaching tools" has always been part of education.  In Biology Labs I teach my students how to draw so their illustrations are clearer than pinpoints on a page.  English teachers teach data organizational "tools" like index cards (or computer data bases).  Math teachers used to teach how to use the slide rule.  So teaching this new technology may be appropriate across the curriculum when it is a support tool that facilitates the curriculum.  (I used to prepare class documents on a typewriter, now I cannot imagine going back to that way.)