The info is found in part two of the introduction. Like any new technique or technology, teaching writing in a computer-based classroom has advantages and disadvantages. Other reports before the advent of networked classrooms noted better attitudes when students wrote using computers. Michael Church writes about the values of students having computers. There are also handheld PC's that students can use outside of the classroom.
Church expresses intelligent views in several aspects of using computer technology.
Right now, the ways we use computers in schools are determined by where the computers are. If computers are in a lab, we use them to build skill. If they're in libraries, we use them as resource tools to surf the waves of information on the Internet. Each of these uses is valuable, but all of them together don't realize the full potential of a computer in the hands of every student.