As a new form of communication it is breath taking. It is a world wide car boot sale of information, opinion, and obsession. We have the technology to connect up schools to the Internet. It is a unique 'learning resource'. Children should not just learn about the internet, they should also learn from it.
Teachers can use the Internet for, well, all sorts of things.
Now we are on the Internet. Teachers must take some share of the blame for being blown about so easily. The media has published stories about technology in schools, it makes good pictures,rather than the learning the technology enables. The government must take some share of the blame for continual meddling. And the computer industry itself has played it's part.