According to New Horizons for Learning regarding Technology in Education:
Many people warn of the possible harmful effects of using technology in the classroom. Will children lose their ability to relate to other human beings? Will they become dependent on technology to learn? Will they find inappropriate materials? The same was probably said with the invention of the printing press, radio, and television. All of these can be used inappropriately, but all of them have given humanity unbounded access to information which can be turned into knowledge. Appropriately used-- interactively and with guidance-- they have become tools for the development of higher order thinking skills.

Inappropriately used in the classroom, technology can be used to perpetuate old models of teaching and learning. Students can be "plugged into computers" to do drill and practice that is not so different from workbooks. Teachers can use multimedia technology to give more colorful, stimulating lectures. Both of these have their place, but such use does not begin to tap the power of these new tools.

I recently took back some bottles to a local grocery store. The bottle machines weren't working and one of the store clerks had to write me a manual receipt. He was probably 16 or 17 years old. I had eight bottles and he wrote me a receipt for $8.00. When I explained to him that it should read $.80, he looked at me like I was lying. Is this a result of computers and calculators? Are children becoming unable to understand the most simple fundamentals of math? What about digital vs analog clocks?

Technology is a wonderful thing, but it must be balanced in the classroom with "old-fashioned" learning so the basic skills are still an inherent part of learning.