Below is a clip from Chris Lehman's TEDxNYED Talk. The full video is below as well. I really like what Chris had to say about the role of technology in schools. When I was a technology director I use to call it "Technology as Pencils". I used the pencil metaphor because pencils are readily available in schools and teachers never write in their plan books to make sure the pencils are prepared for the lesson. They just expect each student to have one and use it as needed. Additionally, pencils come in different shapes, sizes, colors, and types (mechanical), just like our hardware devices. Pencils need to be sharpened occasionally and technology devices also need to be tweaked now and then. Finally, pencils get too short and stop working and we need to replace them, just like computers. This is where we need to get with technology - available to all and used when and how they want. Check out the video below.