I taught and developed courses for 28 years - I hate the reliance on technology. It usually ends up being automated slide shows, etc., and allows the "teachers" to become lazy and ignorant. The AF tried to convert to "smart" classrooms many years ago, to leverage upcoming technologies. The program keeps getting traipsed out and some "turd polishing" takes place, but it has not improved efficacy. Most of the failed "upgrades" become permanent for the simple fact that they can save a few bucks a year.
IMO there's nothing like a topic-smart and motivated instructor/teacher to ensure actual learning takes place.
We just had an in-service about technology and the child's brain. While using tech can certainly be an amazing educational boost, even college students aren't mature enough to handle it. My students have netbooks because our ELA text is online. Are they annotating Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address or are they goofing off? The thing is, they are so good at being deviant that I don't catch them until they fail to hand in work or fail an assessment. It's too late then. Each year we catch the AP and scholar students with pictures of exams and copied papers from previous students.
I think technology in the classroom is a wonderful concept; however, children aren't capable of correctly harnessing its power. Also, at the in-service the speaker told us that children no longer read linearly, but in an F pattern instead. Pull up a Wiki entry and you'll see exactly what that is. We are now training our brains to read until we see a key phrase or hyperlink, then skip down lines and read until we see another. Frightening.