Knowledge is dynamic. Information often changes, reformulates, grows instantly. Technology allows the teacher and students access. Thus, a critical role of the teacher is to make information available and, more importantly, to make it relevant. Now, machines can best undertake mechanical tasks such as calculation, typing and even spelling.
Students have to go beyond the basics.
They must be able to manipulate and use information. No longer is the best student the one with the best handwriting or the most accurate multiplication or the best spelling. The best student is the one who, with the assistance of modern technology, can absorb and use information, convey ideas. Let the machines do their work. Let humans do theirs - a seemingly simple but radical shift in our educational orientation.