The document discusses how educators and administrators have complained throughout history about students' dependence on new technologies for writing and calculating. It notes complaints from 1703 about slates, 1815 about paper, 1907 about ink pens replacing pencils, 1929 about store-bought ink, 1941 about fountain pens, 1950 about ballpoint pens being a "ruin of education", and 1985 about handheld calculators. It concludes that while pens, pencils and calculators are still used, computers now make lives even easier, and there will always be complaints about new technologies.