Courtney writes, "students who are accustomed to editing as they type, may experience difficulty during in-class writing exercises in which computers remain unused. In contrast, a student who is accustomed to, and actually prefers, pen and paper as opposed to a computer may appear deficient in the process of generating ideas because just as the student J, he or she is unable to jot the ideas down in the margins because on the computer or word processor margins for scribbling notes are absent." Ah, the double edged sword. So what is the answer? Do we make computers optional at times? Do we switch between keyboard & monitor and pen & paper? Do we let the old technology fade into the background just because there is something new? Maybe the answer is to let students choose their preferred medium while still teaching them how to use the new technology.