Obsolete Skills for College

Obsolete Skills for College Faculty

• Operating a mimeograph machine
• Washing blackboards and clapping erasers
• Loading slides into a slide projector
• Making transparencies
• Calculating grades by hand
• Adoption of expensive textbooks

Obsolete Skills for College Students

• Calculating with a sliderule
• Sharpening pencils
• Washing blackboards and clapping erasers
• Communicating with the professor only during office hours
• Carrying a backpack full of expensive textbooks
• Standing in line for textbook buyback
• Buying expensive textbooks

Other Obsolete Skills…

New Skills for College Faculty

• Tweeting
• Blogging
• Pinging
• Texting
• Social bookmarking
• Document sharing
• Podcasting
• Open education
• Open Textbook adoption

This posting was inspired by an idea suggested by Robert Scoble.

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