I don't believe that technology is ruining the classroom, but that it is the classroom which is ruining education. If possible I want to raze the classroom and use technology to raise education. As a high school teacher of many years, I don't think reform is about teachers anymore. It is about the texts and the tests, the two things which have a strangle hold on the advancement of education.
Teachers are between the rock and the hard place.
Eliminate the text and the test and then something will happen. The Internet has great possibilities of helping us hold the textbook makers and the test makers accountable and to offer alternatives to the status quo. I want to put the teacher back in control and remove the outsiders who are messing up education. The Internet is a way this can be done, although the presumption is always the opposite. The current mess of texts and tests is vertically driven, commercially and politically controlled, with standards offered as the goal.