"That all sounds reasonable to me, " said Chris Casal, a computer teacher at Public School 10 in Brooklyn, who maintains an individual, professional Twitter account along with one for his school.
One example given by executives was of video lessons by a computer science teacher.
To this end, Ms Kamarck talks enthusiastically of computer-focused teacher training and pilot programmes that may improve applications of existing science.
The schools invest the money they save through computer learning back into teacher salaries and coaching.
The following day, at a lecture about personal branding and appearance, I asked 80 people to describe what a typical professor, computer hacker and high-school art teacher looked like.
Students work on certification as Unix system administrators, and Sun helps with curriculum design, offers teacher internships and sets up computer labs, says Leslie Bowers, Sun's enterprise network services workforce program manager in Milpitas, Calif.
"I think the computer makes you more creative, " said writing teacher Linda Denstaedt.
In one corner, a teacher checks out one of the molecule models printed by a colleague and starts chatting with a computer science engineering student who's fiddling with the 3D scanner nearby.
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Then there was the North Yorkshire community school which had turned the Pi into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) reader to measure lap times in their cross-country races, and the London independent school whose pupils had come up with Teacher's Pet, a way of delivering homework via USB sticks plugged into the tiny computer.
For several years, he was a math teacher in New York City, a job he landed after struggling to find openings suited to his computer-science degree.
Peter Morris, a teacher from Bishop Gore Comprehensive School in Swansea, spoke of "pupils fighting in the classroom, throwing computer monitors around the room".
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