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From teacher Karl Fisch:  “Hmm. I wonder whose problem it is if our students don’t know how to question, ask/search, find, evaluate, synthesize, repurpose, remix, and solve problems using tools like Google and Wolfram Alpha?”

Technological progress overtakes a previously accepted and expected human skill.  Travel & transportation are categories that through technology progress we stopped expecting to learn to ride a horse, camel, camp on the trail during a multi day journey.  Food is another.  Growing or hunting what you eat is what the unibomber did, not what normal people do anymore.  I’m wondering at what point are old expected skills thrown out for the new way to a degree such that they become the new expected skill.  Keyboarding over penmanship...  Social networking over f2f networking, video conference over physical meeting.  What stays sacred…

It doesn’t feel right that Google is taking responsibility for spelling and syntax.  They still seem like accepted and expected human skills.  I’m guessing at some point such skills won’t be necessary as systems will handle it for you. 

Some transitions in an in-between state:

·         Online banking  - no branches, no paper checks or cash

·         Real Estate, auto sales, travel purchasing with no agent involved

·span         Energy of the non-fossil variety