Computers are a useful tool in the classroom. Computers have become significantly more user friendly, faster and significantly cheaper over the past three years. Train staff in their use and buy appropriate software. A rough business guide is to spend the same amount as you spent in the purchase price in training and software and build this into your costing at the start. People get tired of fund raising for computers year after year.
Computers are brilliant at processing information already on board.
Typing in large chunks of information by a seven year old to make it look nice is tedious and of dubious value. . . . . . E Mail and the Internet. The integration of computing and telecommunications technologies . The reasons are simple. E mail allows huge amounts of information to be sent and received anywhere in the world.