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February 27, 2008

Obsolete Skills

Rotary Dial Originally uploaded by taurusaficionado

Our Teaching with Technology Community of Practice had a great discussion today about just how much this "digital native" stuff applies. It was the consensus of this group of University instructors that our students know only about a narrow swath of new technologies, especially cell phones, YouTube and Facebook.

I came across this site that lists all the skills that have become obsolete. And there is another site just like it but with more pictures.

One thing that jumps out right away is that so many of the skills that are now obsolete are skills that most of the people I know never even learned.

Interesting to think about!

Photo credit: Originally uploaded to Flickr by taurusaficionado

Posted by Pat on February 27, 2008 7:02 PM