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When I was first involved in instructional technology, I drove a VW Rabbit and carried 6 Apple IIe computers in my car. The children at the schools began saying, "The puter lady is here!" I am sure that struck terror in the hearts of the teachers at the schools. Technology has not been easily embraced by teachers. In the early days, teachers told me that computers would go away, like everything they had not want to deal with over the years -- Language Masters, Math using symbols instead of numbers, and so on goes the list.

Well, 24 years later the computer is still here and an integral part of our students lives. What are we to do??? I guess we might as well embrace the computer because it are not going away -- only getting smaller. How many laptops can you fit into a VW Rabbit -- I bet more than 6...