Michael Schrage of the MIT Media Lab wrote a piece for The Financial Times saying that there should be no computers in schools. He argues that billions could be saved by keeping useless technologies out of schools. As an educational technologist, I felt that I needed to address his critique.

 
I think his main argument is with educational software companies, but he fails to differentiate between them and between teachers using technology in the classroom. His article cites nothing other than his own opinions, but it is an interesting read nonetheless.

A selected excerpt,

"Yet today's champions of digital education swear that this time it will be different. They are right. It will be worse. Why? Unrealistic expectations. This dismissal of failed educational technologies past recalls H.L. Mencken's wicked line about second marriages as "the triumph of hope over experience". Good teachers know this. That is why so many are cynical about computerising their classrooms."