What happens when there is research funding for new technologies for children?

People often ask me-Where are people really being funded to make new technologies for children? What they're referring to is that (at least in the United States) there is an awful lot of government funding to support the development of new technologies for adults (e.g., mili tary uses, workplace applications, scientific uses). There is also a fair amount of funding these days for evaluating the impact that these new technologies can have in teaching and learning. What is more difficult to find are program initiatives that only fund the development o f new technologies for children. In the "Report to the President on the Use of Technology to Strengthen K-12 Education in the United States," it explains, " . . .much of the promise of educational technology is likely to remain unfulfilled in the absence of a significant increase in the level o f funding available for research in this area..." (Report to the President, 1997, p.95).