Balance between technology and humans

I can recall as clear as a bell exactly what it felt like sitting in Mrs. Freeman's 1st grade class and working on penmanship.  It was the time just after lunch that was dedicated to making our writing look more presentable and professional and we must have spent hours working on it.  Fast forward a few years to my 3rd grade class and I can remember sitting facing the board as Ms. Montreal drew slanted lines on the board to teach us how to write in cursive.  Now move forward a few more years and here I am in college and I honestly cannot recall the last time I sat down and used cursive to write a paper, everything in today's world is typed and classroom notes and papers are not very different.  I am not trying to stop technology from entering the classroom I think it is a wonderful tool that helps to enrich the lessons and helps teachers connect better to students but as I was working on my presentation I can't help but notice how much schools have changed even in the last 15 years. At the beginning of the semester I remember Karl mentioning how up until a dozen years ago you could transplant a teacher from the 1930's into a modern classroom and they would still have mostly the same tools but in recent years that modern classroom has changed so much sometimes I don't even know how to work all of the new gadgets and I graduated from high school in 2006.  I think that students are becoming too dependent on a tool and it is our job as teachers to find a healthy balance of technology and old school methods.  Students should have to write out drafts and go through and edit them themselves they shouldn't have spell check and grammar checks taking care of all of their edits they should be able to solve a math equation without using their calculator; a good teacher should be able to use the technology to enhance their lessons not create it for them.