Computers Making Kids Dumber?!?

Last night a colleague was worried that computers might be making her dumb which I do not think she has anything to fear. (She is high on the intellectual totem pole.) But I did a little researching to see if there is anything to her comment and this lead me to Monke's Orion. My district is spending huge amounts of money to level the playing field and to reduce the achievement gap but after reading the comments below form Monke's column, one has to wonder if it this is the way to go.

.....a University of Munich study of 174,000 students in thirty-one countries, indicates that students who frequently use computers perform worse academically than those who use them rarely or not at all....

U.S. Department of Education statistics indicate that spending on technology in schools increased by more than 300 percent from 1990 to 2000.