Good practice in hi-tech classrooms

The excellent techlearning.com newsletter [subscribe] brought me this article this morning -- Good Practice, Best Practice.

What is "good practice" when we're using technology with learners? The article (which describes itself merely as "some ideas for discussion"), is maybe not such a great one -- but the question certainly is! And it also leads to other links on the same question...

Of the four quadrants the article mentions, I'd say technology in the classroom should be "low input" (especially in terms of your time), "high impact" (on your students language learning, that is).

"What's the return on investment?" I would always say, before booting up the technology...