I love this article as it supports my feelings about computers. I believe strongly that when you have a computer in the classroom, you have to have a teacher who is skilled in classroom management. I believe that you have to give the students more work than they can possibly do, but it has to be work that they can complete and be successful at.
I really do feel that the one laptop per child program will fail unless there are adults to monitor and direct.
Quoted from http://www.slate.com/id/2192798:
Why giving poor kids laptops doesn’t improve their scholastic performance.