Larry Cuban's argument is that computers are incompatible with teaching requirements because teachers have so many students to teach and it is simply too hard to incorporate computers into their teaching.

Henry Becker from the University of California examines Cuban's arguments in the light of data from the 1998 (US) national survey of teaching, learning and computing. He finds that Cuban's arguments are still essentially correct. However the data shows that teachers with a constructivist oriented teaching philosophy tend to have their students make regular and active use of computers during class. This will mostly be using word processing software but may also involve CD Rom or internet-based information retrieval.