CliffStoll, the hacker-catching, planetary astronomer, author, and volunteer 7th grade science teacher, followed Striker with a keynote address which included a demonstration of how he taught a 7th grade science class to measure the speed of light.
He started off with a blowgun and a stuffed monkey, demonstrating the physics involved in simultaneously firing a "dart" from the blowgun and dropping the stuffed monkey from where it was suspended twenty feet away, and still managing to hit it with a dart.
Stoll argues that the computers are bad because the students use them primarily to play games, rather than learn, so it's better to expose them to teachers who teach.
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