They depend instead on expensive slates. Students depend on paper too much. They no longer know how to write on a slate without getting dust all over themselves. Students depend too much upon ink. They no longer know how to use a knife to sharpen a pencil.
Students depend too much on store bought ink.
I very much doubt that we re the only family on the block without a Web page. Your instructional system is driven by teaching rather than by learning, by the needs of professors rather than students.