Students are motivated to try the activity. The activity is dry and boring. Technology cannot make a bad activity good or a boring activity exciting. The activity itself must be imaginative, thoughtful, and creative. But the lesson should be at least as easy and worthwhile with it as it is without it.
Technology definitely improves the lesson in some fashion.
Technology is appropriate but the lesson could have been carried out without it. If your paper is not written well and typo-free, it will negatively impact each of the above categories.