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I grew up in the 90's, there were Apple //es orMacs with edutainment software on them that we'd be taken to once a week, and by high school there were several computer labs full of Windows XP machines scattered around, a couple "public" ones that teachers would occasionally schedule to take the class to to do some research or type up an essay, and a few that were computer focused, I took a class on MS Office in one of those, and that's where I was when I first heard the planes hit the towers.
About that time is when it felt like the manager and politician class latched on. That putting computers in schools made them look good, it was a bragging point, "Look how modern and up to date we are" so they'd start to cram computers in where they didn't need to be. My junior year in college I took a calculus class that was in a CAD workstation classroom. We were told not to touch the large, loud computers on our desks and had to try to see the board around the monitors. That was probably the most egregious case but it happened a lot. "Don't touch the computers, this isn't a computer class." Like all the fresh shiny equipment colleges will walk tour groups into, turn on the lights, show off that they have it, turn the lights back off because no classes take place in there, that equipment is for owning not teaching.
Now the shift is, kids get issued a chromebook and use that instead of pencil, paper and textbook. "We'll use these because that's what it's like these days."