Technology in classrooms: confusing for everyone, especially NY Times readers

In the past few days, the NY Times, bastion of everything educated and literate, has run a bunch of single articles (at least, I don't believe these are part of a series) about technology in the classroom. Spurring intelligent discussion or spreading confusion? You decide.

Screen Time Higher Than Ever for Children:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/us/screen-time-higher-than-ever-for-children-study-finds.html
(my summary: studies show increased tech use; term "app gap" used for the division of people who use apps and don't)

And
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/opinion/occupy-the-classroom.html?emc=eta1
(my summary: we need to change classroom tech inequalities instead of financial/job inequalities)

And
Out with Textbooks, in With Laptops for an Indiana School District:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/education/19textbooks.html?pagewanted=1
(my summary: this school uses only laptops and PDF textbooks; it's ka-ray-zay!)

Contrast this with:

A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Compute:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-silicon-valley-technology-can-wait.html?hpw
(my summary: these rich IT execs send their kids to a school with no computer use; the kids learn fractions from cutting fruit; it's ka-ray-zay!)