Technology Fails us?

Hawisher & Selfe have done a nice job outlining the flaws in our reporting of our own use of computer technology in our classrooms, especially with the self reporting of the extraordinary gains we make in democratizing the classroom.  I try to make all my students equal, and even try to level the field so that everyone feels that they are equal contributors to the classroom activities. 

Furthermore, I am struck by the statement that "we must begin to identify the ways in which technology can fail us" (41).  Very often I hear that technology, and computers in specific, with be the panacea for the woes of education as well as the equalizer to bring all socio-economic classes to the same level of education and opportunity. I wonder, also, if we shouldn't change the process by which we adopt technology for our schools and classrooms.  Is the technology we adopt and implement actually more divisive of the economic classes and racial groups? 

The process by which we adopt technology often feels to be more about public relations (e.g. 1 computer for every two students, interactive white boards in each classroom, etc...).  Is there real thought given to the pedagogical, social and economic impacts of the technology we actually do adopt/implement? 

So, I guess that I must ask if the technology has failed us or whether we have failed our students in our process of evaluating the technologies we should be able to offer to them.