The skills students need to have must update as the way people learn updates. The skills that the students needed to have were the ability to read, write and speak the English language correctly. If they cannot perform these simple tasks, they are considered illiterate. If you are illiterate in today's society, you cannot simply live in society. In the story "The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society" by Jonathan Kozol, the author writes: "Illiterates cannot read the instructions on a prescription drug bottle. They cannot find out when a medicine has passed its one-year shelf life safe: nor can they read about allergenic risks, warnings for diabetics, or the potential sedative effect of certain types of pills without a prescription." (Kozol 116). This is just an example of some of the basic things that illiterates cannot do, from the author's perspective. But now ordinary people have to know how to use a computer, how to use the telephone, how to pay taxes online, how to use Google. Most jobs these days involve the use of a computer. So including having to have the skills to read, write and speak. You also need to know how to write and if you are illiterate, you won't know how to write. Therefore technology has changed the skills we need