RE: Technology in Education

In a sense I share Phil Faris' hope that there IS a way to use technology in effective way for a large section of students. But I haven't seen one yet, after working in the technology area for three decades. I am skeptical whether individual computer-based learning can be effective, even if only at high school as he writes. For some projects? Sure. For selected students? Certainly. But for anything approaching 1/3 or more of curriculum, for maybe 1/3 or more of students? I find it hard to believe. Even at high school level schooling is more than  an almost-solitary activity.

So let's leave technology in K-12 where we know it works (libraries, labs, programming classes, teachers) and until we see a really good working (rather than "promised to work":-) example of technology-as-a-teacher AT LEAST AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL, I suggest we should limit the expenditure for it in K-12 education for experiments and research, but not across the board.