Some reading...

I did a google search of phrases like, "Educational Technology"; "Technology in the Classroom"; and "Challenges adapting technology in the classroom."

Of course, these searches resulted in thousands and thousands of results. I looked through several. Many of the first articles I perused were dated from the early 2000s. I laughed a bit at some of the major obstacles facing integration. As you might expect, those obstacles included hardware installation and adopting school/district policies about using email or websites for communication rather than paper or newsletters (http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech087.shtml)

It seems like most of these goals/obstacles to technology integration in the classroom have been achieved or overcome. For example, the four different school systems I've been with since the late 1990s have each used email and websites for communication. Parents and teachers are simply expected to be able to access these technologies.

So...if some of those early ideas for getting the world of education able to use technology were focused around practicalities and hardware, maybe an intellectual discussion could take us to the next step...goals to maximizing student achievement with technology. And perhaps the use of technology in education is so widely scattered and varied that doing meaningful research is impossible. What does it mean to do research about the learning results of a 1-2-1 school?