Why are students not actively involved with the technology that is already in schools?

In discussions with high school students I have encountered a number of different approaches to technology in my local high school, especially as it relates to computer use during school. For many students computer class is boring because the teacher is unable to share much beyond the students’ current knowledge. Oftentimes new technology is dumped on the teachers with no training, and the teachers are afraid to do anything with it. The students did not feel like they were learning anything, and they found many other things to do on the computer that that they found more interesting than class work. Other students told me that they were able to go beyond the safeguards and walls set up within the technology at the school, whether that means Facebook or another non school related site.