Tech skills for dinosaurs...

One of the IT publications I read sends emails to subscribers and today, they sent a list of 10 technology skills that are "going away" in 2012... I will leave out the items for tech-heads (ColdFusion, Silverlight, and a few others) but the remains are useful for educators to understand:

Email--

I'm not sure educators can do without their email.... at least I am not sure I can because I use it as my "default" online identity and to reset passwords and access accounts I use infrequently. The manner in which I use email is changing for sure (let's see when is the last time I attached a Word document to someone?-- those who know what they are doing all share documents on Google or some other system now). I do expect email will stay around for educators who maintain connection with individuals in different communities (parents, colleagues, associates far away, conference presenters...), but for internal communication, let's join the 21st century.

Hardware & Software Support--

I've seen this one coming for some time... BYOD and could computing are reducing our need to have and own and maintain servers and desktops. When those devices fall out of our domain in education, so will the need for tech support.

Hardware & Software Support--

I've seen this one coming for some time... BYOD and could computing are reducing our need to have and own and maintain servers and desktops. When those devices fall out of our domain in education, so will the need for tech support.