As much as I hate to say it, you don't always need the bells and whistles that technology bring to a classroom to teach something well. Often technology can become counter-productive, in as much as it can dazzle the students, removing their concentration from the object of the lesson.

Unfortunately, I think you'll find that most schools now, public and private alike, move through material at a very fast pace, especially at the earlier years. It's a shame, because this it the time we should be building strong foundations, but it seems the governments believe that our future generations only need a foundation of sorts.