I have been following this debate for the last week. As a relative newcomer to the field (about five years) I have a hard time seeing what all the fuss is about. Are the ideas represented here all that radical? Perhaps my orientation is healthy, as the "new generation" we may be much more open to different approaches (rapid prototyping, learners as designers, etc.).
We are currently reading the book that you quoted a number of times from Computers as Cognitive Tools in my Artifical Intelligence in Education class. As a whole the class finds these approaches exciting and fresh. In fact, there has been almost no controversy at all, just an eagerness to try out these ideas in our current settings.
I am working with a local Technology Education teacher (used to be Industrial Arts, but is one of the areas in our state that has embraced new learning technologies). We are developing some middle school electricity modules, and one of the first things the teacher asked me is "can we let the kids develop their own modules?"