I'll take the glass that's half full, please.

Discussion of Integrating Computers in the Schools
As we read this article, there are a lot of concerns that are raised about integrating technology into our classrooms. What are the biggest factors that inhibit technology integration in your experience in classrooms? 

Alright then.  Please bear with me for a minute.

I am the starry-eyed optimist, the wild-haired crazy one who drinks way too much coffee, always saying "Trust me, it'll work," often wrong but not always.  I'm not sure if you all have heard of Larry Ellison of Oracle or Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla.  You know who Google is even if you've never heard of Larry Page.  And hopefully, you've heard of Steve Jobs of Apple.  This is one of the cool things Apple had to say about visionaries:

Attribution - Rob Siltanen

This league of extraordinary gentlemen (thought to be crazy by their contemporaries) sees a future of unbounded potential - exponential learning, sharing and information exchange that will make what's happened since the Dawning of the Internet look like a church house school room from The Little House on the Prairie.  I'm only carrying their message . . . yes, possibly as a duped aficionado. 

So, I'm not really going respond otherwise to the criticisms of using technology in the classrooms.  Oh, I acknowledge them.  I'm aware of them, not just theoretically but as one who is on the other side.  I pioneer the use of technology in the classroom, at my own expense - financially & temporally - quite often.  I've read the book Teachers & Machines by Larry Cuban, recommended by our good Doctor, as well as many other book-length criticisms of over-sold technology and the damage that the Information Age will cause our children.  Some good one's include Howard Gardner's App Generation and Sherry Turkle's Alone Together.  Very good reads all and understandably cautionary.

I am not a snake-oil huckster or corporate charlatan.  I am someone who can see an unstoppable wave that is coming.  Or, as economist Edward Castronova has called a "teacup in a hurricane" in his his cool-headed analysis of the future Exodus to the Virtual World.  So, I choose to look forward to the bright Future not lament the unchangeable Past.

I will say this, as the most common observation (tech historians and tech advocates) of why seminal technology is not integrated, teachers are resisting technology in the classroom.  

"Resistance is futile." - Locutus of Borg

With all that said, I love the fun of the scholarly debate and philosophical discussions of whether or not we should do something simply because we can.  And, if only for the fun of it, I'll always play the Devil's . . . I mean technology's advocate.  And of course, the Borg were defeated, LOL!

Thanks for humoring a trusting, naive philosopher.  Cheers!