Don't buy technology to teach about technology. Educators better be able to do more than enhance existing instruction with new, powerful types of instructional technology. Keyboarding is a basic skill now, but it is a temporary one at best. Spending thousands of dollars to teach about technology at the expense of using technology for more powerful tasks seems to be a waste of money. Effective technology plans define technology as more than computers.
Many technology plans only deal with computers.
There are many other types of technology available which have appropriate uses in education. Include as many types of technology in a plan as possible. Teachers need to understand that learning to read and write video is as important as learning to read and write English. Kids today get, and will increasingly get, information from a video screen. Learning the grammar of video production is the next basic skill after learning to read and write.