In the course of learning these seven points, I've had to look at their implications. We all got onto the information highway with the best of intentions, and the quality of the pavement suggests the highway may be taking us straight to hell. So let's look at the seven points again. Every school in North America is fighting to keep a little money available for capital spending on something besides computers. Every hour a teacher spends learning computer skills is an hour lost to professional development in one's discipline.
Every computer lab means less space for regular classrooms or study areas.
We could get the same effect by flinging a semester's worth of handouts at the students and inviting them to read them in any order they like. Better yet, fling a set of alphabet blocks at them and tell them to compose their own damn handouts. The mentor-apprentice relationship isn't automatically superior to other kinds of learning relationships. We went into teaching, in part, because we understood and liked the classic teacher-student relationship. It rewarded us as students, and it rewards us now as teachers.