"… I know that virtually all advocates of one-to-one programs truly believe they serve the students’ best interests — that to not be a one-to-one school is to ill-prepare students for the world bowing to meet them, and that we have a responsibility to equip our students with the ability to interact in meaningful ways with the electronic world and the social media inhabiting it. Who would argue with that? I mean, really. Beside ostriches.
But I’m not convinced that the best way to equip students with the ability to negotiate technology is to further attach them to it." …