Of course, active learning is rarely a clean, neat process. Students engaged in such a process can create busy, noisy, and messy classrooms. Activities and learning environments must be carefully guided and structured so learners are fully engaged in their learning. Students must learn that exploration doesn't mean just running around doing what they want and ending up who knows where. Educators must recognize that if students are investigating and asking questions, writing about what they're learning, and doing those things in an authentic context, then they are learning to read and write and think.
Technology merely provides the tools to be used for authentic learning.
It is a means, not an end. Technology provides educators with the opportunity to move from simply streamlining the way things have always been done to really imagining things they would like to do. First, teachers must insist on being part of the planning for technology integration, rather than merely the recipients of other people's ideas. They must work together to create exemplary units, and then they must share their experiences with one another. The classroom had five computers, and the students were all busy on an investigation.