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Soon after I posted this morning's blog entry on technology, I got some emails that gave me second thoughts about the way I had advanced my argument. I had painted the ed tech community with a very broad brush, one person wrote. Few supporters of technology in schools are wild-eyed enthusiasts for every new gizmo that comes down the pike. Few believe that iPads or the internet can work miracles without serious attention to how students use these tools. And almost all value persistence, patience, deep thought and concentration.

I meant to argue that education technology is important because it can unite the interests and concerns of the ed tech supporters and skeptics. New media can be powerful aids to old-fashioned skills like reflection, research and reason. And ed tech supporters have the best interests of children at heart. People who use the internet to push all manner of garbage, on the other hand, do not. All the more reason for young people to learn how best to use technology.

So my previous posting may well have reinforced the false dichotomy I was trying to attack. My apologies.