[kwhitefoot]

The purpose of education should be learning how to think and to apply one's thoughts. The most important tools in the class are the brains of the teachers and pupils. Those are really the only tools that are needed. My youngest son had to have a laptop for the final three years of school (Norwegian videregående). It was justified on very flimsy grounds. One of the programs was a geometry program; what he learnt from that could have been taught by Pythagoras with a sharp stick in the dust on the ground.