The Student-School Disconnect

In a recent column at Tech Central Station, Joanne Jacobs suggests there is definite "digital disconnect" between many students and their teachers:

[For many students] using the Internet is like using a TV or a microwave or a telephone. It's normal.
 
But when they're in school, it's a problem. They can't get to net-linked computers locked in the lab. Their searches are blocked by intrusive anti-porn filters. Some teachers don't give Internet-based assignments; others don't know how to design an engaging, useful assignment using the Internet.

To support her argument she draws on information emerging from recent youth forums sponsored by the U.S. Education Department.

Do you, as a teacher or student, draw similar conclusions from your own computer/web experience at school?