Michael Goodsey's article is worth the read. There's been no shortage of similar headlines for at least the last decade, maybe two.

But I'm quite interested in Bill Cope's comment the biggest change for teachers is not learning to use new technology, but learning new social relations of learning. This is making me think. ... and I'm thinking that perhaps there's another dimension as well? how-to use might be selling short the affordances of the technology in terms of know-how, which can also be about sense-making skills that involve know-why & other dimensions of knowing. To me, social relations are important & powerful in learning ... but they are largely about know-who.

Having said that, I prefer Bill's take that ongoing innovation in digital technology facilitating the reconstruction of the K-12 teacher

• Jon Mason

Dr. Cope, a fascinating article. I believe he is correct in many ways. As we have always known there are good teachers and bad teachers. This helps to weed out those bad teachers. It also can span the have and have not gap.
I think of it, and hope I'm right, that is is similar to farming. Back in the day everyone was responsible for growing and harvesting their own food. You ate what you grew. Then the cities grew and people helped each other. Then farming processes got so good that less than 1% of the worlds population could feed the other 99% of it. Maybe this holds for teaching.
If the instruction is of great quality, which is really the key here, does this then free up the teacher for more higher value skills and occupations? I don't know what those would be, but it is food for thought.

• Sol Roberts-Lieb