Interestingly enough, I am in the same boat as you here, and several times the teachers I work with want to change everything in the project from the start. In their eyes, they feel that technology is an all or nothing proposition.

I agree with you that just providing the option for those students that want it solves so many problems. Today, I was in the lab with a teacher who was having students work on PowerPoints. He had asked me to troubleshoot any problems. The students have seen PowerPoint since 1st grade, so there wasn’t many issues. Some students finished the project early and were just languishing around on Paint. I showed them Imagination Cubed by GE, and they were hooked. Later on in the day, the students sought me out to tell me how cool they thought that site was.

They want to create, and we just need to let them.